CONFESSIONAL
Confessional is an animated typographic sequence of “confessions” submitted by those who answered a call to anonymously share something they are “haunted” by—the definition of which was not supplied. Confessional presents us with media we may not historically encounter via television or in public. Through this controlled disruption of expectation and presentation, Confessional asks us to engage actively with an apparatus we most often experience passively, and leaves us with an unusually emotional experience.
Confessional is an apparatus for becoming haunted. A public broadcast of the private via 40-year-old portable television, Confessional pulls these messages from the invisible highway of VHF radio waves and displays them for visual consumption. Acting as a medium for the message, Confessional provides us a way to tap into things others have whispered into the void.
The confessions become ghostlike in their visual manifestation—fading in and out through the visual and aural static of the analog television—but also their anonymous origins, having been stripped of any source indicator. Confessional gives us a short, unexpected glimpse of something we otherwise may not be privy to, and do not expect to show up on here—also like a ghost. As one contemplates the pulsing text on the screen, one may become by haunted by a confession that remains persistent in their mind.