HW 2.2 On/Off

I had high hopes of running a multi-layered on/off experiment. I had planned to stop using my devices for the purposes for which I use them the most: time management, photos/social media, and communication.

However, when Monday rolled around and I attempted to start my day, get ready for class, and manage my time - as a person without a wristwatch, not using my phone to check the time at least to keep me on task felt very anxiety inducing. So I abandoned this part of the experiment. 

I decided to forego dropping out of communication also, as my sister and family live in another country, and get frustrated or anxious when they cannot get in touch with me. 

I kept to the photo/social media part of this experiment. I decided to not use my camera phone, to not take any pictures with it, nor to take any screenshots, but instead make a small drawing of everything that I would normally take a photo of or screenshot. I kept this to the subjects I would normally photograph, and the images that are stereotypical of social media, and did not seek out things in particular that would relate more to my drawing practice. This experiment was fun. It was a little more time consuming, and potentially performative if drawing in public, but the act of spending this time with my mundane moments and drawing instead of taking a photo felt refreshing and really fun. 

I also cut very small pieces of paper to use for these drawings, approximate in size the the on screen photos in Instagram. I sometimes like to set parameters when setting up a project, to have constraints to work against, or rules to work within.