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Writer's picturetherossauger

summer painting, 2024

Updated: Nov 19

I spent so much time working on this painting, it feels like it deserves a little more than just an addition to the gallery. I took a week off this summer to decompress and I think I drifted a bit too far. how long can you stay in your imagination before things start to bleed together? in my humble opinion, it's often too good to be true. that said, a small pleasant conversation that has nothing to do with anything other than the person in the conversation goes a long way. disconnecting takes work and sometimes I'm not sure where my opinion stands if it's worth it or not. you have to hold your breathe in the undertow, right?


I've been thinking a lot about artificial intelligence. sometimes I think about it through the lense of folks who said the internet was going to take all of our jobs and it seems kind of silly. regardless of the emotional side you're on, it's going to change up a lot of lives. I've started drawing/sketching/painting through a filter of how ai will generate images. It gives enough that you know what's going on, but when you actually give it your focus, it's not quite there. From what I've observed while . I don't remember how someone's left arm looks. I remember their general essance and probably what kind of energy they put out, but I'm not going to have a memory of them walking down a flight of stairs with their arms fully detailed in my memory. how does this look visually? is it lazy or efficient? I ask the same of when I really try to paint from memory.



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