Two years ago I showed what I called "Brick Paintings" at Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto, many of which, in retrospect, look like cellphones. The emphasis in those works, however, was on the hand-held device as something that could be thrown like a paving stone over a barricade, or to send a message through glass.

I bought my first real cellphone a few years ago after I had already made imitation phones. Today I use my Treo 650 Palm not only as a telephone, but also as a still and video camera and to get email. It has a calendar, and I can type memos into it, and although I have yet to load it up with music, I could.

How often do people use cellphones to talk to themselves, I wonder? The non-working "cellphones" and "Personal Digital Assistants" I make in the studio can be used, but only for similarly private rituals. The "cameras" I make can be pointed at things, but there is no film in them, and my "hard drives" can be imagined to hold information even if they can't be plugged in to computers.

This exhibition comes with a soundtrack that I composed using the computer program Garage Band. This musical composition is meant to function as the audio for the art, something that one would usually listen to with headphones.

- Cliff Eyland, 2006