"Artificial" Intelligence - B.F.A. gallery
Noun: an artificial usually subterranean conduit to carry off sewage and sometimes surface water.
Ink wash and Ink Pens
30”x22”
Adjective: having no home or permanent place of residence.
Ink wash and Pastel
22”x30”
Noun: an address or petition to a god in word or thought.
Digital Painting
30”x22”
Noun: the quality or state of knowledge and understanding that something is happening or exists.
Ink wash and Pastel
30”x22”
Noun: the act of deciding definitively, a firm or fixed intention to achieve a desired end.
Ink wash and Pastel
30”x22”
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Ink wash and Ink Pens
30”x22”
Noun: The state of being or process of becoming aware of something through the senses.
Watercolor
22" x 30"
My work takes a narrative approach to representation and is heavily influenced by cinematography and comics. I strive for an image to be able to tell a moment of a story within a single piece which revolves around the emergence of Artificial Intelligence. Humanity constantly makes things more like themselves, whether that is installing air conditioning to regulate temperatures or how we domesticated wild dogs to be more “civilized.” With this search for artificial intelligence, we are creating something closer and closer to the human mind, as that is the highest benchmark for intelligence that we currently possess. If we are someday successful in creating this intelligence the question arises, have we created something new, or simply created something human?
My works revolve around portraying these moments of “Humanity” with robots filling in the places in which we would often imagine ourselves: moments of compassion, of heartache, of yearning, of defeat, and of hope.