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“The Book of Hours” explores how the concepts of Christian Mysticism have transformed toward technology and, particularly, generative AI. Seeking connection to an unknowable and mysterious power, devotees commit a prayer - a written or spoken request to the mysterious power of the AI to grant their desires. The resulting images reflect what the devotee, and what all of us, wish for: connection, respect, sex, power, beauty, and on and on.
Using appropriated AI images from around the internet and social media, I transform AI slop content into pages of a devotional, a current-day book of hours for reflecting on one’s own connection to human desire and divinity.
screen print, 11×13”
I made this piece after searching for dress patterns and seeing the website flooded with AI generated images. Most of them were of women in long gowns that were reminiscent of medieval peasant dresses, but others were more suggestive. All of the AI generated women were thin and white, which I found troubling.
This desire to be seen in such a narrow light, the sameness-ing of our styles and body image feels like the inevitable result of searching for something that simply fits. The images of women in dresses in this print are appropriated from Etsy listings, the background pattern is a subpixel grid from a smartphone, and the eyes are hand drawn.
screen print, 11×13”
The infamous, “Shrimp Jesus” image is one that I found very compelling, and rolled around in my mind for several months. Eventually, I did a little sleuthing and found the original account that had posted it. To my surprise, the account had posted thousands of AI generated images related to Christian iconography and mythology.
The responses to the content-farmed images was fascinating. There were lots of “Amen!” comments, but occasionally someone would repost the image and start a dogpile of people who were horrified at the media illiteracy of other Facebook users but, themselves, didn’t seem to notice the soulless, money-grabbing context of the account posting the images.
The images inside the pyramid are lifted from this Facebook page, with a background inspired by the subpixel grid of a smartphone. The blue ribbon is hand-drawn.
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Uncracked eggs in Rennaisance art often represent purity. The protective layer of the shell protects the material inside from dirt, debris, and spoilage.
We often think of nature as being a place unspoiled by humanity, but there are practically no places on Earth that haven’t been touched and shaped by human hands. The very concept of nature is artificial, as is this landscape. The background imagery is appropriated from a MidJourney’s requests.
screenprint, 11×13”
If you read the title of this piece and thought it was confusing, that’s because I’d originally planned to title it, “A Knot that Tightens Itself” but got distracted while I was signing the prints. I, unfortunately, didn’t notice the error until after I’d already sent prints out for exhibitions at which point it was too late to correct.
The knot is hand drawn, the background is Perlin noise, and the bear is from the viral AI video of a bear jumping on a trampoline.
screenprint, 11×13”
When I came across this AI generated cat-horse chimera online, I was struck by how much it reminds me of the lamb at the center of “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb” (the Ghent Altarpiece) by Jan van Eyck.
I placed it at the center, bleeding into a plastic rally cup, rather than a golden chalice. The scene behind is from a Midjourney user’s request for images of Hell. I find it telling that Midjourney assumed Hell would look like a call center.