CLIFFORD PICKETT · PIXEL THREE PIECES

One pixel is nothing.
Ten million of them are a photograph.

Three interactive pieces on a single idea. Each opens on one pixel, the simplest possible building block: one flat colour that means nothing on its own. Scrolling steps you back; dragging sideways lets you wander at any distance. Pixels join, and at some distance the blocks stop being blocks and become light, weather, an animal, a place. Same material, different perspective.

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ONE

The step back. One pixel from the dead centre of the photograph fills the screen; the camera walks straight back for eleven screens until the whole picture fills it. Nothing switches. Blocks become fur only because each pixel grows smaller than your eye can separate.

FROST ON THE BISON · YELLOWSTONE
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RELIEF

The same step back, through a print with depth. Near things stand off the surface, so up close the pixels are a landscape under one soft light; as you withdraw, perspective flattens it into the photograph.

THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH · IN RELIEF
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RESOLVE

You never move; the information arrives. The full screen starts as the photograph’s single average colour and gains resolution continuously, every cell splitting in four, until ten million.

THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH · RESOLVING