About the work

A closer look.

A large-format chart of the four places a message can land once you send it: answered, left on read, breadcrumbed, pinged into silence. Drawn on a real 1970s phone-company read diagram, centered on the answering machine, the ancestor of the read receipt. You get a high-resolution PNG and a print-ready PDF, with every source printed on the page (for the curious: a 1,098-person study on how senders and receivers misjudge a silence). Words you might type: left on read, seen but ignored, ghosted, read receipt, why no reply, being ignored poster, silence art.