The Question

I brought everything close until only a head and a screen were left. Where the eyes and mouth should be, a phone has taken their place. On the phone is the sentence I typed myself: do you remember yourself? The hands are raised to type, so the figure asks the question while disappearing behind it. There is no face anymore. There is only the device that has replaced it. Heidegger wrote about how we can slowly lose ourselves without noticing. We begin to live like everyone else, think like everyone else, and do what everyone else does. Little by little, the person we were supposed to become starts to disappear. That is what this screen has swallowed. I made the question small and ordinary, like a simple text message to a friend, because forgetting yourself often arrives in that same quiet way, one tap at a time. Part of the series Do You Remember Yourself? by Mehdi Rooz. Also available as a complete three piece set.