The Series Ink Paintings on Rice Paper by Anthony Lombardi January 2013
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There Are Times That I Prefer Not To
The GOOGLE Series I began this series as an investigation of the borders between what is considered ‘order’ and what is considered ‘random’. I utilized GOOGLE, which is the most-used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services. A Google search-results page is ordered by a priority rank called “PageRank”. Google Search provides more than 15 options for customizing a search. Google’s search engine normally accepts queries as simple text, which it breaks up into a sequence of search terms, which are usually words. However, as an option Google allows you to search for an exact phrase by using quotes to search for an exact sequence of words. Google gives result matches as a list of web pages or images. Each of these paintings represents a search query of an ambiguous random English phrase. I took a selection of the images that were ordered in the page-rank of the search and composed the picture according to the resulting images. The pictures contain seemingly random images composed on the page. In reality, the pictures form a compact family of ‘search-results’ which correspond to the text. Each picture is painted with ink on rice paper and measures about 30 x 20 centimetres. Anthony Lombardi
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Could You Keep Me Posted
I Don’t Think It Works
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If They Had Been On Time
We Might Have To Consider An Alternative
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He Was Not Prepared To Accept The Consequences
She Should Listen More Carefully
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