Everything I Bought and How It Made Me Feel

a year-long log of my purchases / a project to weaponize the quantified self / an auto-anthropology of the consumer subject / a self-help diary / an attempt to mine the nature of daily anxiety / a lo-res dataset about late capitalism / a car crash / a sick joke / a repetitive litany of suffering / an exploration of loser agency / a parodox of subjectivation / an exercise in hope / quarterly reports and info about the artist at www.harrygiles.org

to learn to discover to mistake
Item: Travel / Accommodation
Cost: £229.29
Needs: 20% Safety, 80% Self-actualisation
Affect: Fair / +1
Notes
the second tranche of bookings / before i left this felt like an adventure / and now it feels much more...

to learn to discover to mistake 
Item: Travel / Accommodation 
Cost: £229.29     
Needs: 20% Safety, 80% Self-actualisation    
Affect: Fair / +1 

Notes 
the second tranche of bookings / before i left this felt like an adventure / and now it feels much more clearly like work / as such more conflicted and uncertain / i start to question my contribution to climate change and gentrification / start to search for a justification for my work and my decisions / i have given myself permission to err / to learn to discover to mistake to try / i come back to this often / as i seek to fill each day with productive work / justify the funding and the political expense / the funding is to make mistakes / you will do parts wrong and do parts right / but the costs still hurt me / and i’m still scared