01 / 2026
Yellow Drift
Thirty-two languages search for the same colour and fail to return the same yellow.
Yellow Drift begins with a word that seems almost too simple to fail. Yellow. The project searches for that word across languages and lets the internet return its own visual consensus.
The result is not a palette, not a translation exercise, and not a neutral dataset. It is a map of disagreement. Each language produces a different yellow because each language points into a different visual world.
The work treats colour as a social compression system. The word appears stable, but the images that answer it do not.
method
Image-search results are collected across thirty-two languages and processed into chromatic averages, medians and visual signatures.
output
- installation
- large-format prints
- web study
- dataset visualisations



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