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Pyrosome has 607 friends.

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Pyrosome has 607 Friends. 152cm X 101cm. 170gsm Silk.
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This image is made from every profile picture associated with my Facebook friends' profiles. Currently I had 607 "friends" on Facebook. My Facebook profile is the gelatinous turnicate in which all other profiles are combined.

The Pyrosome is a free-floating, colonial tunicate (like a salp chain) that is made of thousands of identical clones, together forming a hollow cylindrical structure that can be 60 feet (18 m) long and wide enough for a person to enter. Each individual clone is a small, complete animal that filters water, in order to obtain food, flush out waste, and contribute to the propulsion of the entire super-organism. These clones have a notochord and are therefore chordates, along with all vertebrates, including humans.(Oceana , 2017).

Each individual image can be conceptualised as the clones within the colony. Each profile is the same in the sense that it appears as face value as a friend on my profile. The are combined into one singular group/herd/colony within the data algorithm with the one singular link they all share; they are my friend.
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  • Work
    • Generation Pelagia: Social Cybercircle >
      • Man O'War follows 689
      • Pyrosome has 607 friends
      • Salp Chain has 36114 subscribers
    • The Approaching Shore
    • Generation Pelagia: Book
    • Oceanarium Zeitgeist
    • This World Is Real
    • New Math
  • About