The word „Confession“ has many meanings: it often implies guilt. Or even fallibility. But sometimes it brings with it positive connotations. For example, when we profess our love for someone, or when we acknowledge that someone is important to us. Leaving aside any moral evaluation of the word, we are still confronted with another aspect, namely that a confession can be something very simple: the revealing of our own very personal history.
Confession Station is a place where you can preserve your own personal confession or acknowledgement. For example, in the form of a letter, an object, but also with a picture or sound-document. The object itself is handled confidentially, and sealed in a so-called “Confession Bag”.
That said, Confession Station is much more than a virtual vault for personal matters. Confession Station is also a gallery. That is to say, we will photograph your Confession Bag and publish it on our (initially virtual) gallery.
Confession Station is also meant to be a place of reflection. It is not only about preservation and presentation, but also about controversy regarding your own history. The contents of your Confession Bag belong to you, and as such are held in confidence. Naturally, you are free to talk about the contents of your Bag. In any case, we encourage you to say something about yourself, or about your motivations. In what detail you choose to go is something left to you. What counts is that you write something.
Last but not least, Confession Station is meant to be a communication platform. Under the tab “A candle for” you can leave your own wishes and prayers.
The more experimental among you are encouraged to follow us to our eBay store. Why? Perhaps there is someone in your life to whom you would like to convey your affection. Take a LoveBag (GreetingBag) and auction it to the person in question. In this manner, your Confession is no longer a one-sided affair, since when that person interacts with you through the auction, they signal their interest. Perhaps in this playful manner you would like to introduce someone to a new medium?
As you can see, the Confession Station is something you can enter at several levels: As an observer, as an active participant, but also as an interactive communicator. The goal is to create connections, to link pasts with presents, with a view to the futures. New forms of communication facilitate the exchange of information in many ways. But in others, they make direct contact more difficult, because the surfeit of information causes us to forget the persons who create it. Confession Station attempts to show that it is up to us to start down new paths. No matter what the future has in store: the focus of progress should not be technology, but rather people.
