To hold someone's attention with a blank slate, all that's necessary is to put another blank slate beside it. You don't have to write anything on either of them. I start to think about the many selves I project, and how the phones work to align them beside themselves, inviting comparison.

It reads: "As a political statement on transit and the concept of rest, millions of New Yorkers collaborated over a period of decades to meticulously create these unique patterns using only their posteriors." ​ they've taken it upon themselves to try to curate our mass transit experience as if it were a living museum.