For everyone, the image of their face is the primary way to represent themselves. In the age of the Internet, how should we interpret this ? These series are collages based on my photo portraits. I aim to explore the meaning of the presence of billions of virtual images and to give an example of a creative interaction with them. For this purpose I have used my portraits and the Google images search engine.Today Google can explore the entire universe of the web, and more and more it resembles a sort of collective conscience that memorizes, reproduces and connects words and images everywhere. Google has in this sense a social function, since it shows how we are now, how we were once, and how we represent our lives and ideas. The Google images search engine not only finds photos associated with a word, but also automatically it shows all the images present on the web, similar in colour and form to an image that we upload. I thought of using this function to create some collages based on my female portraits. In the center of the collage there is my photo, around these there are the small thumbnails of images from Google Image associated to that portrait. In this way, Google Image compares my photo portraits - taken in accordance with my specific photographic style and my cultural and visual background - together with all the images (paintings, photos, drawings) existing on the web. It seems to me that the final result is striking and metaphoric, in some cases even ironic.
