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The Mundane and the Meaningful Moments Found in the Notes App of Your Phone

The Mundane and the Meaningful Moments Found in the Notes App of Your Phone

We talk about how the notes app can be a reflection of self, and we invite you to share your notes.

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August 21, 202555m 47s

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Show Notes

The notes app on your phone can be a repository of the quotidian aspects of life – a grocery list or reminder about a doctor’s appointment. But these notes can also be revealing, intimate and beautiful. It might contain a cache of private thoughts and feelings – the fragmented summary of a bad dream, the first line of a poem, or ideas for how to propose to your partner. This juxtaposition of the mundane with the meaningful is one reason artist Rel Robinson felt compelled to put together the new collection, “iPhone Notes,” which gathers the ephemera captured in the notes app of local artists and writers. We talk about how the notes app can be a reflection of self, and we invite you to share your notes.


Guests:

Brontez Purnell, author, "Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse" and "100 Boyfriends"

Rel Robinson, writer and artist; editor of "iPhone Notes," created as part of Conventional Projects

Rita Bullwinkel, author, "Belly Up" and "Headshot"

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