I began this series as an investigation of the borders between what is considered ‘order’ and what is considered ‘random’. I decided to utilize the commonly-used search engine GOOGLE. A Google search-results page is ordered by a priority rank called "PageRank". 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 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.
