With his ethereal compositions, Mathieu Merlet-Briand explores internet materiality. In #DESERT, he gathers a database of online images depicting dunes of sand. Elements come together through the use of algorithms, bringing a myriad of pictures to inhabit his canvas. Hues of orange and yellow remind of the physical reality of the photographed subject. Meanwhile, elements come together through algorithms, bringing a myriad of pictures to inhabit the canvas. The fragments add up to form an abstract, bi-chromatic whole. While withdrawing from their initial matter, they show a weaving of relics from the world wide web.