Ruth ThomasPIXEL PARLIAMENTS (2/3)
The 2017 European Parliament
Say the current (i.e. at the time of the creation of the work) European Parliament has 10,000 seats.
Increasing the actual number of seats to 10,000 while maintaining the same percentages held by each of the individual political groups (on the 1st of March 2017) gives rise to this fictitious, yet realistic, pixel parliament.
Each pixel corresponds to one seat, each colour to one group. The number of pixels per colour is fixed, the arrangement is random. There is only one possible colour scheme, whereas the arrangement is one possibility among many.
The colours of the stripes at the edges also adhere to the aforementioned ratio; their different visual language forms a transition to a further development of the theme in the work below.
(Embroidered cotton, 30 x 30 x 3 cm, 2017)
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The 2017 European Parliament
Say the current (i.e. at the time of the creation of the work) European Parliament has 10,000 seats.
Increasing the actual number of seats to 10,000 while maintaining the same percentages held by each of the individual political groups (on the 1st of March 2017) gives rise to this fictitious, yet realistic, pixel parliament.
Each pixel corresponds to one seat, each colour to one group. The number of pixels per colour is fixed, the arrangement is random. There is only one possible colour scheme, whereas the arrangement is one possibility among many.
The colours of the stripes at the edges also adhere to the aforementioned ratio; their different visual language forms a transition to a further development of the theme in the work below.
(Embroidered cotton, 30 x 30 x 3 cm, 2017)
https://ruth-thomas.net/pp
#pixelparliaments
#euparliament
#europeanparliament
Ruth Thomas