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Dataset is an ongoing investigation into how meaning shifts when images are reorganized through a precise, rule-based system. Whether by hand-cut collage or digital tools, each work uses repetition, rhythm, and interference to deconstruct and reassemble visual history. The process preserves every fragment of the found imagery, nothing is hidden or discarded. The final compositions feel familiar but also newly resolved, exposing latent patterns and unseen relationships within the source material. This structured approach draws parallels to the logic of AI models that train on vast "datasets" to produce its images, while remaining grounded in a distinctly human impulse: to collect and work with tactile materilas and to make sense of the past through form.
The physical Dataset works are hand-cut collages made from found imagery, often sourced from historical art, photography, or printed media. Each piece is constructed through a fixed system of slicing and sequencing, where no part of the original material is hidden or discarded. Instead, the source images are fully preserved through meticulous fragmentation and reassembly. The result is a visual code: rhythmic, fractured, and layered with unresolved meaning. These grid-based structures echo the logic of machine learning systems, orderly yet unstable, while remaining firmly rooted in human touch, intuition, and physical labor. In contrast to the digital Dataset works, which translate this method into algorithmic form, the physical series insists on the slowness and precision of the hand.
Digital on-chain certificates of authenticity (TRACE from Transient Labs) available for those interested.
Smaller Dataset Works
The Dataset digital works translate a hand-built collage method into code. Using AI-assisted tools, large public domain archives are reorganized into systems of visual rhythm and fracture. Latent images surface, not generated, but revealed through patterned interference. Rhythmic, fractured, and newly resolved, these works expose hidden patterns within historical subjects and genres, while quietly musing on the logic of AI training models.
Prints available on demand.
Digital 1 of 1 copies available through Manifold Gallery (sold out)
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