All the Uhuras

All the Left/Right Uhuras, 2014
All the Center Uhuras, 2014

68 cm x 86.5 cm, Inkjet over lapis and silvertone wash on Awagami Bamboo 250 gsm paper. Master jedi paper tricks via Emily York.

These prints are composed of 288 cropped images of Uhura from the television show Star Trek. Each frame of the first season is analyzed with facial recognition software, and found Uhura faces are either inscribed with tattoo-like circles representing individual facial detection algorithms, or scaled, cropped, and center-aligned via sophisticated image-processing routines. 

To offset the explicitly computed nature of this work, the images are aligned on broken grids, and floated on an organic background of silvertone metallic or lapis mineral pigments.