Whispers from the Web

Perfect bound magazine
Cover: 8.5” x 11”
Spread: 11” x 17”

whispers from the web is a series of found jpegs, encountered using controlled search terms. Googling select queer identities with the emotions ‘sad’ or ‘happy’ delivered these images. The first result was saved. Superficial. In this process, Google, one of the largest search engines on the planet, was slowed down and it’s endless feed made static. With results moving fluidly between photographs of people, objects, and memes, the work makes visible what identities, bodies, and behaviours have digital coherence and traces those which become largely illegible.