01 / 2026

Yellow Drift

Thirty-two searches for yellow. Thirty-two ways of seeing it.
Yellow Drift colour field

Yellow is easy to point at. It feels settled, immediate, shared. The work tests that confidence by asking what happens when yellow is gathered from many different image worlds.

Across thirty-two searches, the colour starts to move. One yellow leans toward flowers. Another toward food, plastic, gold, warning signs, cartoons, fabric, medicine, weather, interiors or the glow of a screen. The name stays simple. The image does not.

Yellow Drift looks at the distance between recognition and sameness. A colour can be understood at once and still refuse to appear in one fixed form.

The project turns that refusal into an image. It takes something that seems universal and lets small differences accumulate until the certainty begins to loosen.

method

Image-search results are collected across thirty-two searches for yellow. The images are averaged, compared and arranged into grids, details and colour studies.

The full project can be viewed at yellowdrift.com.

output

  • installation
  • large-format prints
  • web study
  • dataset visualisations
Yellow Drift colour signature detail
Yellow Drift language grid detail
Yellow Drift chromatic average detail
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