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.