I’m addicted to my phone, pls help

i’m addicted to my phone, pls help is a continually updating work. The installation offers a tangible experience of the notification, an action that captures our attention daily. This central mechanism of social networks is capable of eliciting pleasure or anxiety in users. For many, prolonged exposure to it can result in a dependency that calls for a new need: a digital detox, or removing oneself from the digital.

the digital. Félix Côte decided to create his own detox process by forcing himself to manually produce the exact number of ‘likes’, ‘follows’, and comments generated on his own Instagram profile. Small tokens are carefully cut and painted by hand and represent a considerable yet necessary amount of time spent outside of the digital. The brief moment of the notification becomes the prolonged time and focus that manual craft requires. Like a collection of wishes or promises made to oneself, these tokens pile up in a stone fountain that can no longer contain them all.