A Hand-Made Portrait of a Software-Generated Relationship
Java software, Fimo clay (2008)

This is a portrait of a person who I found using a custom software program that ran for ten days analysing over 600,000 New Yorkers on FaceBook. I was looking for someone with the fewest friends who in turn have the most friends. If Paul Revere were on FaceBook, I might have found him.

The software identified this person and helped me contact them. My discovery turned out to be a female a stage actor, undoubtedly a social fulcrum and probably a word-of-mouth marketer's dream come true. This portrait depicts me as much as it depicts her and her friends. The portrait depicts our email conversation, in which she described how she wanted to be portrayed.

Shown in 2008 at the NYNYNY group show at the FluxFactory in New York, in which artists contributed scale models of their favourite real and imaginary places in New York City.