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Parallel plays with the malleability and impermanence of computerized textual communication where words, images, and media are broken into smaller components (for the purpose of storage, management, transmission, etc.) and later reconstituted to recognizable form.

Parallel consists of two components:

Two "parallel" stories are constructed so that they are grammatically equivalent (noun for noun, verb for verb, etc.). As the program continually runs, words are randomly selected from each story and swapped with their grammatical counterpart in the other story. Each story consequently loses its original "narrative" state and is perpetually being transformed into some amalgam of the two.

Situated between the parallel stories is a composite image composed of pixel-like graphic elements from two images (each relating to one of the stories). Pixel elements swap back and forth between the two to form new variations of the composite.