Blog
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Unravel: The power and politics of textiles in art (Barbican)
This exhibition is right up my street and I wish I could have gone. Gladly Liz could lend me the exhibition catalogue.
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Bitmap edits
I experimented using Adobe Photoshop trying to lean the AI portraits further into the visual coding of the lost children on milk cartons. Trying to replicate that low quality grainy imagery reminiscent of newspaper print. Of utilitarian mass printI developed a formula using the bitmap function that works well. It was a steep learning curve as I am still really new to this editing software and it’s definitely not my strong point. But I can see the enormous merit, nay necessity, in being proficient in the Adobe suite and I feel motivated to push my abilities in this area.
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Creating AI children
After a lot of research, I landed on using the Night Cafe Studio AI engine.
It gives the most photorealistic results that I could find which is what I was after.
Developing the prompts was one of the most interesting parts of this process. AI seems to want to make everything [perfect and hyper real so I really had to push with the language to generate believable portraits of children that don’t look like Gap models.
It presents with the usual glitches.
I pushed to make some sleeping children images that I am also happy with and want to translate into paint or sculpture.
