mystery phones
Ghost Phones…The Party Line…Fortune Phones; all of these Mystery Phone art pieces give strange, fun new uses for the nearly arcane, dying technology of the dial telephone.
Ghost Phones let you have a one-sided phone conversation with a ghost from the past…except that this ghost just never lets you get a word in edgewise. Then there’s The Party Line, which is your very own stand-alone private multi-phone system. Finally, there are Fortune Phones, which let you receive a mysterious reply to your yes or no questions.
Let’s look at the Ghost Phones.
There are many themes for Ghost Phones: There’s the Judy Phone, the Nixon Phone, a Nanny Phone (a modified Ruth Draper skit), a Paris Hilton Phone, a Joan Crawford Phone, a tarot card telephone-line phone, a suicide message-line phone, there are even ideas for a Billie Holiday Phone, a computer help-line phone and a Kennedy Phone.
Each Ghost Phone is unique, each is surrounded by with its own specific environment, surrounded by objects that enhance the story of the Ghost talking.
Mystery Phones are more than just old phones with dinky MP3 players ‘n’ stuff hidden inside. They’re artifacts that let you listen to strange dreams, shared.