When creating a profile on OkCupid, users are asked a series of questions that range from the deep and personal to the very banal. Through these questions, an unseen algorithm matches you with others by assigning a match percentage out of 100. The profile pictures shown in the work are the result of a worldwide search yielding my most ideal matches.
Printing the images to, roughly, a 1 to 1 scale with the viewer creates an uneasy tension between the photograph and onlooker as they make eye contact with each other. The photographs are arranged in a grid pattern to over-take the wall they are on and give the viewer too many images to take in at once. Because each girl depicted falls within the umbrella category of an incredibly favorable match with me (being in the 94 and up percentile) I am forced, as is the viewer by proxy, to make judgements based on looks. By making the viewer undergo this sense of window shopping with my potential mates the work acts as a way to transfer my anxious feelings about online dating, a sort of portrait of me using photographic examples of ‘my type’, and also raises questions about how one portrays, and possibly objectifies, themselves to the world via their profile picture.