'Bedtime Story Conservatory' - Coordinator

A digital reading project independently ran over the course of 100 consecutive days. Recordings of myself reading children's books, articles, interesting short stories and poems were sent out to a mailing list of over 100 subscribers every day, with short reflections, anecdotes and visual material. The project was in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic whilst studying in Helsinki, Finland. "A project consisting of a mailing list, to which I send out audio recordings of myself reading interesting texts, poems, short stories and other bits and bobs I have gotten excited about. Alongside the reading is often some visual material, thoughts, feelings and reflections. The project, beginning in late March 2020, is on-going. In building this archive, the material included morphs together to form some sort of larger image or feeling, generates abstract links thematically and visually, and in turn gives rise to meaning. I can only hope, in this time especially, that these emails act as a moment of warmth, clarity, engagement or escape for the receiver. An email is sent out every day." Full archive: https://www.samuelthompsonplant.com/bedtime-story-conservatory