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What is a Pentalog?

A Pentalog is intellectual fast food in a five-words sentence combined with a corresponding random picture from the internet.

The term Pentalog is a neologism created by Patrick Samuël. It is composed of the two words penta (Greek five) and log (to record something). In his words:

In my daily ocean swim, I discover all sorts of things – few fish, lots of plastic – and flashes of inspiration. That’s how I got the idea to describe the world in five-word sentences. You can actually express everything with that. Less is more. This is how seawater becomes the inspiration in my Pentalogs.

Samuël gets straight to the point and distils thoughts into sentences with five words. Analog and without gimmickry.

To find corresponding images to the text, he feeds these sentences into the image search of various search engines. The logarithms often reveal bizarre results.

It is often amusing, but sometimes also disturbing,

the artist says. Finally, he processes the images on the computer and places them next to the text.

Pentalogs are thus a timestamp of personal ideas crossed with the logarithms of the internet universe. They are an artistic form to counteract sensory overload and stimulate imagination!

→ At present Pentalogs are available in German only.

Image research on: bing.com, duckduckgo.com, ecosia.org, google.com, startpage.com