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Saturday the 7th of August, I wanted to play with the concept of chance through cellular phones – a tool we use on a daily basis and has become indispensable to one’s life to a certain point. It’s a sad fact, but it’s true. I went in search of places where I was given the right to leave a phone unattended and let chance take its course.
I placed two phones around 1 pm. Each one had two numbers saved in its inbox; my personal number and the second phone’s number. It was a play of probability between the three. I left one at a coffee shop named Drawing Room and the other one on a bench outside a shop called Maharishi on Portobello Road. As I was documenting the installation of the phone in the coffee shop, it rang. The bench-phone miscalled the coffee shop phone. I called back, but no one answered.
I went home, and as the day was passing by I called these to locations gambling my chance. No one answered. I didn’t know if they were stolen, if they were still there, if the battery went off. I just kept trying from time to time. At 7.32 pm I get a phone call on my phone. She and I spoke.
However, I will never know if there was a chance encounter between the two found phones. I risked not knowing and I will never know. The time was undefined and the chance of it all was truly undetermined.
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