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sam.ai.am art club
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Originally created as an entry into the Billboard Display at Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo open call on thehug.xyz, an open call of over 1800+ works curated by @CozomoMedici. For provenance, I feel it important to include my process for the creation of this piece.
The open call asked that the artwork be inspired by, or serve as a companion work to the 6 artworks that were going to be displayed alongside it. Those works were:
• "Right-Click and Save As Guy" by XCOPY
• "START AGAIN" by Beeple
• "the fisher king" by Claire Silver
• "Life in America" by Grant Yun
• "I. Birth of Luci" by Sam Spratt
• "LetsFixIt" by Dawnia Darkstone
When deciding what to create, I set out to include parts of some of those works in the DNA of mine.
I started with "I. Birth of Luci" by Sam Spratt.
In the description of that work, there is a poem. I used pieces of that poem in the prompt I created for the original base image; not only some of the exact words, but after extensive conversations with MuseAI (a Poe chatbot operated by BLΛC) as well as ChatGPT, I developed other words and phrases that would tie into the ideas expressed in the poem. "Second day/of the Second month,” for example, led to ideas of birth and renewal, the festival of Brigid, etc. These pieces of prompt were brought together to form the final "mother" prompt, then generated in Midjourney. Images from the prompt were then blended in Midjourney and expanded to produce the final image.
"the fisher king" by Claire Silver was further inspiration for the "story" behind the image. She writes in the description of her work: "If 'innocence' is a major piece of what we strive to protect in children, and AI-augmentation will allow in-mind, instant access to the breadth of human knowledge, what will a transhuman child look like? Will 'innocence' become divided by class? Will we still value it? If not, what will take its place?"
A second separate prompt was then blended with images from the "mother" prompt to create the transhuman child seen in the image. I then brought the two pieces together to create the scene. Who was this child? Are they a memory, a regret from the past, a hope for the future? What is their relationship to the woman in the image? I imagine a future where transhumans once existed, or still did, where the tensions between their existence and the ones who saw themselves as "pure blood" would have potentially maimed our world. Did we use the power of our Holy Grail as we should have?
The nod to "START AGAIN" by Beeple is the sapling growing out of the wasteland, being carefully tended to by the woman. The very obvious green foliage feels almost otherworldly and out of place in the harsh, dried ground. The woman in my image, much like the astronaut in his, is in a similar position of almost reverence and awe to this thing that is growing out of the ground, perhaps representing a chance to learn from the mistakes of the past and start again.
There are hints to the other 3 works in there as well (color palette, filters, noise, a woman as the central figure, etc.), but the three mentioned above were the most influential in my final version.
Composition of the elements and post-processing were done in Photoshop and the final image was upscaled in Topaz Photo AI. The final image was left in the dimensions required for the open call - 1920 x 1080.
While I was not chosen as a winner, I am extremely proud of the process and growth I went through while making this piece, and very happy with the haunting beauty of the final image. It is one of my proudest works from this year.
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