Art Portfolio | A Human in the Loop

Generative Collaboration

My experience with generative AI has been life-changing.

As a child, I remember how frustrated and deeply disappointed I would get whenever I tried to recreate what was vividly pictured in my mind.

No matter what medium I used, I could never fully translate my ideas onto the page.

This explains why I choose the performing arts over a traditional art path. Theater offered the best outlet for the stories and characters I envisioned.

Now, with these new tools, the once-disappointed kid in me has never been happier.

Since diving into AI-driven art in 2023, my work has evolved in unexpected ways.

I had no plan or preconceived goal.

I used selfies as the primary input. My fragmented prompts were more poetry than prose.

Through consistent iteration and careful curation, I’ve generated over twenty-thousand images, discovered a consistent cast of characters, and continue to build a world beyond my childhood imagination.

Retro・Disco・Butoh

My visual work is fueled by my extensive background in theatre and the performing arts, my study of Japanese Butoh dance, an enduring love of Disco, and a lifelong obsession with Star Trek and the retro vision of the future.

Across my still images and AI short films, you'll recognize themes of nostalgia, loneliness, duality, and grief sitting comfortably with joy, love, and liberation.

You’ll see editorial-style portraits, retro-futuristic disco twins, and the surreal, sometimes unsettling quirks of AI.

—extra digits, distorted faces, and anatomical oddities—

The darkness of Butoh dance and the vibrant colors of Disco, fused together in a perpetual dance through liminal space.

I invite you to explore and see what resonates.

Featured Collection

ARTIFICIAL PORTRAITS

I'm never lonely with you by my side.

I thrive in the collaborative tension of working with AI.

Releasing expectations, I revel in the weird outputs and welcome the misfires.

an exploding mirrorball, gold and burnt orange against a dark background. Image by Eric Kerr

Retro・Disco・Butoh

Although, they differ significantly in their artistic philosophies and modes of expression, Disco and Butoh share a common thread of challenging societal norms and providing a platform for expression.

Disco celebrates life and community through vibrant music and dance, while Butoh explores the depths of human emotion and the subconscious, through a darker, introspective lens, and often unsettling performance. Butoh originated in Japan in the late 1950s as a reaction against Western influence and traditional Japanese dance forms. The dance of darkness was developed by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno during a time of post-war cultural upheaval. Disco was born out of the underground New York City club scene of the early 1970s, where marginalized communities, including Black, Latino, and Queer communities, found a space for expression and liberation.