Marginalia
special bonus crayon-drawn version
Algo-generated 16th C woodcuts of demons, printed into a tiny book. The Torinomicon contains a small selection of the demons which inhabit members of the Conservative Party. UPDATE I made 23 copies of an extended…
During the early days of the pandemic I decided to start reading Ballard. A lot of Ballard. In fact, for many months, exclusively Ballard. Quite why I’d waited so long, I do not know. He…
Enterprising artist pharmapsychotic recently released some code which attempts to ‘reverse-engineer’ text prompts from any given AI-generated image. I could not resist the opportunity to turn the system onto ‘real’ art to see what it…
Ludwig Wittgenstein towers above all others in the field of the philosophy of language. He thought a great deal about the relationship between truth, language and what is truly knowable. I’ve painted him before, with…
I’ve recently gained access to Dalle2 and have been investigating its potential. Overall, I am very impressed, though somewhat irritated by their (completely understandable) policy around producing only ‘safe’ images. One interesting feature is the…
The Prisoner is a cult British television programme from 1967. Created and starring Patrick McGoohan as Number 6, a secret service agent attempting to escape from a mysterious coastal village. I was first exposed to…
This painting is derived from a composite of images Viq generated from photographs of Eric Kleptone, of The Kleptones.
Inspired by the AI works created for the Orange Marylins series, this is a further transmutation of the photograph of Marylin Monroe, appropriated by Andy Warhol.