Additional Notes: 

My purpose is creativity in concept.

Pen, paper and stamp replaced by smartphone capture and communication. Words and images from moments of respite and re-charge, ‘posted’ to a digital universe.

The title of this work implies a social-media-savvy mindset. However, ‘Victoria’ is a reticent and sometimes resistant explorer of the fast moving digital landscape, so the hashtag serves as a mute and symbolic silent letter.

Volumes 1 and 2 present a nomadic coffee connoisseur’s visits to 99 unique hospitality establishments; accompanied by two dimensional and non-interactive random but recognisable subjects of present-day photojournalism.

I invite the curious to consider this work an experiment by an unconventional creative, combining love of cafe culture, current affairs, people-watching and solitary “chillaxing”, in the current playground of digital communication.

I encourage critics of frivolous expense to reflect on their choice of self-indulgence.

Finally, I offer reassurance that all purchases of beverage and confectionary were self financed; and where the facility allowed, all literary material featured was donated to the establishment for the benefit of other customers.