Rainbow Book

2018

This was a web-based project exploring appropriation & digital community. In this project, I downloaded and printed glossy 5x7s of images I found of rainbows on the photo-sharing website, Flickr. There were 100 pages total. This photo album is the Internet at its most endearing to me; all these individuals looking up at a sky, taking photos of their rainbows, and sharing them . . . to create this wonderful digital archive of rainbows, all together. Here, they’re in a photo album, together as a family. I hand-wrote the date, caption, and location in the margins of each photograph.

One of the sad things about the Internet is that it’s ephemeral – web hosting is paid on a monthly plan, people delete their accounts, websites become defunct, that video that you watched and loved in 2007 gets copyright striked and you’ll never see it again. This is also a way for me to fight back against that ephemerality and capture this moment of the Internet, preserved in memory forever (or until I lose it).