mutation
Sketching ideas to jump off from with ai has been a main focus for this ai project. Ceramic wall relief has a long history and seems to be making a resurgence in the contemporary art world. Here are a few ai-generated relief installation concept close-ups with my spin.
Images generated with Bing.ai / Dalle-2
These mutated beauties speak for themselves. As seen on instagram collab with exactly.ai.
Images generated with exactly.ai
Imagine a world where the effects of climate change accelerate creation and destruction. Sea creatures use sunken artifacts as homes, die, erode, replicate, repopulate, reattach, reanimate… These are three of my favorites.
Images generated with exactly ai.
I often look back at the history of art and ceramics for inspiration, especially Greek and Roman black and red figure ware. Whether it’s a shape, painted scene or other aspect, I adopt something as I create. One of my areas of obsession is the use of red and black. This was one jumping off point in the prompts of many of my ai pots. I’m also constantly thinking about what pots would look like had they been buried in the sea for many centuries and retrieved. I visualize their appearance once they are fully or partially restored or “recreated” incorporating what’s attached.
Images generated with Deep ai.
As ai gets more accurate it is becoming more difficult to create vessels with asymmetry. Could this be because of historical and contemporary ideals of art and the collection of images as sources? Because so many find symmetry pleasing? Whatever the reason, it is hard to break through. Some models are especially challenging, particularly in visualizing the outer silhouette.
Images generated with Leonardo.ai
A rewarding part of playing with ai has been collaborating with exactly.ai and getting to articulate why I enjoy using their image generator. Below is a series of my images cross-posted on Instagram and my answer to “how do you use exactly.ai?”
Images generated with exactly.ai
How will life under climate change affect how species develop and adapt? What mutations will occur? As I research ideas and imagery, the lion, deep in symbolism and history keeps tugging at me for a number of personal reasons. These are a few images generated that incorporate lions and….
Images generated with durer.ai / exactly.ai
I have always had a fascination with archaeology and the sea and I continue to circle back around these topics. For quite some time I mainly worked in printmaking and multimedia, but I’ve recently refocused more around ceramics and drawing. This has led down an interesting path both in terms of concept iteration and in what I’m producing.
I started thinking about ceramic vessels— if sat in the sea for a long time what would accumulate on them and how could they mutate and take on a life of their own. I’ve continued to follow this line of thought to see where it will bring me both conceptually and visually.
Bing’s Dalle-2 was a fun place to play out some of these ideas and concepts. Here are some initial iterations of vessels with the eye as an inherent part of a seashell, sometimes manifesting as a pupil (hole) or an operculum of sorts. Though they are symmetrical they are not too uniform so there is an uncanny handmade quality to them. The ceramic texture are spot on as are the imperfections.
Images generated with Bing.ai / Dalle-2