A vast and endless terrain of networks, I was curious about what collaboration with the limitless Internet would entail. I implored "digital individuals" to upload what they thought were examples of a good photograph and invite all of their contacts to do the same. I hoped to expand the scope of my search in order to achieve a broad collection of images from artists and non-artists alike. All they knew was what they had, their opinion on a quality photograph.
The majority of images submitted were landscape oriented, revealing that my "Internet photographers "viewed their most exemplary images as describing their surroundings. As I viewed the images all together, ties were formed between pictures that would never be formed previously, since most of the photographers are essentially impersonal strangers to one another. Yet throughout all the complexity of navigating the mass of images submitted and the relationships they formed, the images themselves started to become ironically symbolic of my collaboration:
Nature is what we--
Yet have no art to--
So impotent Our Wisdom--
To her Simplicity
--Emily Dickenson
Kelsey Venderventer/Jennifer Gerberding
Zachary Perez/Eleanor Clemmons
Danielle Peterson
Hannah Britton/Marianne Jaeger
Jennifer Gerberding/Amanda Rountree
Carissa Whisenhunt/Zachary Perez
Jane Pittluck/Adam Espinoza
Emily Marston/Molly Perry
Danielle Peterson/Jennifer Gerberding
Danielle Peterson/Carissa Whisenhunt
