Playing House

In the Web project "Almost Home," originally commissioned by New York's Dia Center for the Arts, Arturo Herrera invites the viewer to play house by creating diptychs using images from a databank of one hundred collages. Sounds simple, but each collage is programmed to appear randomly, so even the truly aware player may never fully view the entire spectrum of this mutant parade of images. Viewers can only accept or reject a pairing; by doing so, she eliminates one or the other half of the diptych until a preferred combination appears.