Arabella Goff (b.2004) is a text-based installation artist living and working in Glasgow. Utilising lived experience as medium, she reclaims existing material to form her work, looking at the way we behave, live and document our lives in intimate and personal ways. Her practice engages the personal archive, to explore themes of permanence, anonymity, authorship and interpretation; resurrecting the past and uniting the human experience. With a current focus on the unseen digital record of society, she has developed an ongoing open call, titled ‘Note to Self’. Approaching the app as a contemporary confessional space, she invites the wider public to submit notes from their phones. Capturing every submission since it began in September, her most recent installation comprises of 499 typewritten notes covering every inch of the walls, alongside a selection of her own. By anonymising all notes, her work allows for the reconfiguration of meaning through personal resonance, narrative and interpretation from whoever experiences them. Particularly, in a climate where privacy is becoming more sought after, ‘Note to Self’ seeks to challenge the hidden realm of digital presence through the employment of analogue processes and public intervention. Using the manual typewriter, she is able to highlight the confessional in a more visible and accessible means, contradicting the disposability and immediacy of notetaking through the act of labour and duration. The notes app exists as a ubiquitous, yet easily overlooked aspect of our lives; a divide my practice strives to dismantle.