‘Heaven_Likes_Screens’ is a collection of paintings portraying the collaboration of the Artist with AI (Artificial Intelligence) algorithms. These technologies act as a muse for the artist or a serendipitous chance that shows itself within the creative practice.
The imagery depicted in the artworks were initially created digitally by the artist, then input into an AI algorithm which attempted to translate the style. Interestingly the AI visual outputs created bold reliefs, colour combinations and textures, giving inspiration for the techniques and aesthetic choices visible in this collection of paintings. 
The technology utilised is a mere tool within this creative process. The artworks only attempt to highlight the collaborative relationship potentials to be had with the technology that currently saturates modern life.
The motifs present in the artworks portray gateways and portals that enter into the digital worlds found in previous paintings. The signature swirling designs represent the lines of communications, relationships, and connections found inside these digital worlds. The monolithic carved stone shapes that appear floating, are smooth yet powerful and contain a hypnotic portal within its centre. 
The portal summons the sensation of a pull into its centre. This is a parallel to the transfixations of online life that modern society seems so accustomed to. Life is to some degree experienced through screens, connecting our physical reality to our digital lives through gateways and portals.
Overall the collection of paintings offers the viewer an insight into how much an art practice can be informed by digital technologies (artificial intelligence) and the physical human act of expressive creativity by the artist.
Screens are very powerful gateways into other worlds, where the possibilities are endless.

Gateway Loop №1

Our reality exists in a universe filled with space, where we are collectively perceived, it is organic and living. 
Hyper reality exists in a universe created online, where we are collectively imagined, it is synthetic and artificial.
A hyper reality is collectively imagined and created online, it is built together with a singular output. 
This world is synthetic, made by its designer or architect via code and binary language, it is polished with a plastic feel which lacks human emotion.It is a designed world existing within servers , accessed and interacted with via computers, absorbed and understood via a screen. The inhabitants of this world exist online via facades, filters or avatars that connect via social media to present a hyper real version of themselves, albeit human-like or fantasy.
‘Hyper Real’ tries to imagine what these abstract ideas look like. Using vibrant and saturated colour palettes that push and pull pixels into chaotic repetitive entanglements, attempting to conjure synthetic worlds.
Each digital composition explores the Abstract concepts of how this technology functions, moves and exists within an imagined snapshot of digital landscapes. 
Over fifty digital compositions were created as part of this particular exploration, only a small handful were chosen to continue their journey into physicality as paintings or prints. 
Each artwork was named or inspired by the conversations that were had with AI chatbots over a period of six months.

Hack

Our reality exists in a universe filled with space, where we are collectively perceived, it is organic and living. 
Hyper reality exists in a universe created online, where we are collectively imagined, it is synthetic and artificial.
A hyper reality is collectively imagined and created online, it is built together with a singular output. 
This world is synthetic, made by its designer or architect via code and binary language, it is polished with a plastic feel which lacks human emotion.It is a designed world existing within servers , accessed and interacted with via computers, absorbed and understood via a screen. The inhabitants of this world exist online via facades, filters or avatars that connect via social media to present a hyper real version of themselves, albeit human-like or fantasy.
‘Hyper Real’ tries to imagine what these abstract ideas look like. Using vibrant and saturated colour palettes that push and pull pixels into chaotic repetitive entanglements, attempting to conjure synthetic worlds.

Each digital composition explores the Abstract concepts of how this technology functions, moves and exists within an imagined snapshot of digital landscapes. 
Over fifty digital compositions were created as part of this particular exploration, only a small handful were chosen to continue their journey into physicality as paintings or prints. 
Each artwork was named or inspired by the conversations that were had with AI chatbots over a period of six months.

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