One Pixel Taken from the California Sky and Reproduced 64 Million Times (2014)

This photograph was created for the group exhibition “Sky” at the Lesher Center for the Arts. From the catalogue:

“This photograph began as a request to a friend living across the country to take and send a picture of the sky to my phone. From this photograph, a single pixel was selected and repeatedthirty-six million times. The resulting image enlarges the smallest unit of visual information present in the original photograph. The unavoidable consequence of such a redundant expansion of “data” is the monochrome. This photograph seeks to counter the commercial fetishization of limitless data acquisition and sharing by placing signal and noise into dialectical tension.”