For this project, I transformed my original album set into a physical photo book, shifting the work from a digital archive into a printed sequence. On my phone, these pictures were just sitting in the camera roll. In a book, they more intentional. To show this repetition, I made it hard to ignore.
The sequence still follows the same pattern: starts with boards that are clear and useful but gradually shift into glare, bad angles, cropped information, and an overload of information. The magazine itself becomes an object full of attempted remembering, but also of failure. It's a record of information that was captured but not kept.
McLuhan talks about how media shapes behavior. The phone camera made it easy for me to trade attention, like taking the photo was enough. Printing the work makes that habit physical. It shows how often "saving something for later" or "for tomorrow" turns into never looking at it again.
In addition, McLuhan describes environments as forces we do not always notice. The classroom environment encourages constant documentation, and my "promises" is this quiet disengagement. The last image then points back to the same loop: the board gets erased, I take another picture, and the archive keeps growing.
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