Noted

Even as 2020 and 2021 have challenged us in seemingly unprecedented ways, repetition and echo have dominated conversation. Sudden plunges into collective trauma and disillusionment have been accompanied by a new vocabulary, and this vocabulary has been used over and over to politely and vaguely reference these issues. “Noted” takes inspiration from this repetition. Each piece is a note ripped from an imaginary notebook. This notebook includes reminders of euphemisms, understatements, and circular conversations that we expect each other to use day-to-day. Other pages feature self-portraits that could be doodled as one’s attention span stretches thin during hours of virtual meetings. The repetition of text and form in each piece aims to mirror the way that days and conversations have echoed one another in the past year.