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The Algorithm series melds ancient and modern. Centuries ago, people made ritual sacrifices to various gods, hoping to earn the gods’ favor and ensure good outcomes for their efforts.

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One day, after lamenting to a fellow artist about the difficulty of getting my work seen online, I was struck by the sudden realization that we, modern creators, are doing the exact same thing as the ancients. We are exchanging folk wisdom about how to placate the gods – or in this case, the social media algorithms.

 

None of us really knows what works, the algorithm gods are capricious, and we tend to blame ourselves for bad outcomes (I guess I didn’t do the ritual right).

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The Algorithm series reflects this reality (or is it unreality?)  I took some old watercolors (and made some new ones after I ran out), imagined myself as the voice of The Algorithm, and handed down some not-terribly-comforting words of “wisdom,” which I printed on top of the paintings in a highly authoritative font using a pigment-based inkjet printer. Each one is unique.

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Algorithm paintings currently available for sale are here 

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