False promises

I regularly photograph classroom boards to save information for later review. While these images are taken with the intention of remembering, I realized that I almost never return to them. Instead, they accumulate in my camera roll, functioning more as evidence of capture than tools for learning. This project grew out of that realization.

Motherboard configuration

Starting with 187 photos, I edited them down to the first 39 and finally to the 20 image sequence. The cuts weren't based on which photos looked "best", but on which ones showed the idea of moving from legible, purposeful notes to repetition, bad angles, glare, cropped text, and finally boards that weren't useful. The series becomes an archive that fails.

In McLuhan's terms, the phone camera wasn't just about recording the classroom, it was about my behavior inside it. The medium encourages me to trade attention for storage, as if capture can stand in for learning. These photos memorialize something ephemeral (the board will be wiped), but they also reveal how easily "later" becomes never.