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I've titled this 'Defiance in the face of an onslaught'. The source material is a modified photo of a friend of mine from approximately 20 years ago, who would talk to me about science fiction films.
As usual these images are a reflection of fears surrounding AI and are a collaboration with the Nano Banana imaging generator.
I created this image from a photo of myself at the age of 26. It took quite a lot of instructions to achieve this outcome and the AI was more aligned than it was in previous attempts. The title is from a sentence in James Blake song This could be the end. By altering my photo I reveal a transformation from the past to the present and I was also responding to UK's call for people to stockpile food in case of future war or terror/cyber attacks and the recent, alarming news that an AI agent had hacked the data of an organisation.
I'm currently attempting to write a short rationale for these AI assisted images. The title at the moment is Future Past as each image addresses time in some way, particularly in regards to the fact that I have begun with a photograph of my face at different times in my life. Using AI has meant that I can bring the present and past together in a flow, in which time passes through us and dissolves the now. The following image I made yesterday exemplifies this.
Yesterday I found a 10 x 12 inch acrylic on canvas board I painted about a decade ago. I photographed it and then, with the assistance of an AI image generator I made a new version. It's called 'Connection'.
Here is original painting and the new image. I should say it took a number of instructions to create this.l new version, which speaks of Medusa and our connectivity to all things, including the long tentacles of technology.
