Media Clutter

Four years ago, I spent a month of my salary to get the latest iPhone XR with the 256 gigabytes of memory that turn the little material thing into a storage house for the immaterial data of my everyday life (books, music, photos, films) that follow me around wherever I go. 

“Hard drive, Cloud, those cyber self-storage space harbour the contemporary personal archive - our amassed but oft-forgotten objects, and house our collected but disregarded stuff of life.” 

In this exploration, I compiled all the photos I took in the past few years that have been saved on my devices. To me, managing media mess is not as easy as doing housework. From 22nd May 2021, 12:47 PM, there has been 5472 photos and 451 videos in my device, every on of them records a transient moment of my life. Scrolling up and down the screen and browsing the excessive, non-hierarchical, flattened flood of images, nothing is arisen except stressfulness.