For two years I meticulously cataloged each receipt from every purchase I made, contextualizing them with hand-written thoughts, feelings, and the circumstances revolving around each purchase. As a log of my life through receipts, I placed them online in chronological narrative form, appropriating the blog paradigm. www.proofpurchase.com was formed, and in the first six months received approx. 2.5 million hits from over 77 countries. The website expired and faded just like a normal receipt.

The receipt is proof of a financial transaction and/or physical material. The hand-written annotations are proof of a temporal immaterial reality. The receipts are printed on standard thermal paper and eventually fade. Through this I open myself up to questions of my own consumption, existence, and identity.

This project is currently being formed into a book.