How to (Learn Online)

2017
Outsourced digital drawings printed on iPad cases, variable dimensions

Abstract verbs such as remember or forgive, designed to notate certain feelings, are illustrated in the style of Wikihow.com website. The rotoscoped images display staged situations where human interactions illustrate these concepts, becoming a visual guide for those who would need to empathize with those notions.


How to Remember (How to Learn Online series). Photo by Damian Griffiths.

'How to Remember' in Terms and Conditions May Apply show in Annka Kultys Gallery, London, 2018. Photo by Damian Griffiths.

How to Concentrate (How to Learn Online series)

How to Learn (How to Learn Online series)

How to Forgive (How to Learn Online series)

How to Remember (How to Learn Online series)

How to Understand (How to Learn Online series)

How to Care (How to Learn Online series)

When you care about something, you have an emotional response to it. It makes you feel happy, excited, nervous, guilty, afraid, sad, or something else entirely. You might be the type to have very subtle emotions, or maybe they're big and overwhelming. Either way, they're like signposts pointing to what you care about. Let yourself be more affected. Engage with the world and let it make an impact on you instead of brushing things off or being dismissive. When you acknowledge that something matters to you, you open the path to caring about it more deeply. Caring doesn't always feel good. In fact, it can feel downright lousy, like when it comes in the form of guilt or sadness. But letting yourself feel deeply—even when you emotions are painful—is what caring is all about. As a reward, you'll have better relationships and be more engaged with the world around you. Caring about people is what drives relationships forward and makes them fulfilling. Sometimes just spending more time with people close to you can influence how much you care about them. The better you get to know them, the more you'll care about them. Go through the motions even if you don't really feel it. If you're really out of practice, you might have to fake it til you make it. Sometimes just going through the motions of caring will put you in the right situation to develop feelings about something until you actually do start to care. This isn't to say you should pretend to care about things just because other people do, or pretend to care about something you actually can't stand. But in some circumstances, it's OK to practice caring in hopes that you'll start feeling something soon enough.