Surging

AI + digital collage 83x163cm 2023 edition of 3

A series of avatars generated by artificial intelligence.
Each face is unique, each body singular.
And yet, they are simple variations of a prompt.

Same poses, same framing, an advertising aesthetic pushed to exhaustion.

Like The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli, these figures emerge from the foam.
But here, the ocean is algorithmic -

The water is rising.
The flood is no longer tectonic — this tsunami is never receding.

An infinite production of standardized beauty: accessible, reproducible, interchangeable.
A simulated singularity, referencing presence.

Our new friends generate them on demand.

The new gods are already here:
beautiful, young, eternal.

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