A.I. my view
I Don't Write Prompts
There's a distinction almost nobody in the AI art conversation is naming clearly.
Generative Fill works on what already exists. Generate Image invokes from nothing.
But here's where my practice diverges from how most artists use it.
I don't write prompts. Or rather — my text prompt is minimal to the point of near-silence. Sometimes a single word. Sometimes just a punctuation mark. In critical cases, a period. The verbal reduced to its threshold, almost to nothing.
The real prompt is visual. I work through reference images — chosen for style, for light, for compositional tension. That selection is the thinking. That is where the artistic decision lives.
This matters conceptually. We are essentially painters. Our language is not words — it's images. Forms, light, color. When I choose a reference, I'm not describing what I want. I'm thinking in the only language that is native to visual art.
The text prompt in AI workflows assumes that images are translations of verbal ideas. My practice inverts that. The image is primary. The word, when it appears at all, is residual.
In Heideggerian terms, Generate Image is a form of Gestell — a technological enframing that reveals the world in a particular way, with its own exclusions and emphases. The algorithm is not neutral. It tends toward completeness, hyperresolution, an excess of presence. My work consists in unenframing what the AI proposes — recovering the elision, the ambiguity, what the model flattens.
And from Deleuze: each generation is not a finished object but a differential variation — a becoming. I intervene in that flow. I choose where to crystallize, what tension to preserve, what indeterminacy to leave open. The collage is not the documentation of that process. It is that process, arrested at a chosen moment.
What Photoshop generates from that visual thinking is raw material — submitted to forty years of pictorial judgment. Not the result. The beginning.
That space between chosen reference and generated image, between visual intention and algorithmic response — that is where Time, Solitude, and the Fantastic live in my work.
Not as themes I describe. As conditions I navigate, in images, without words.
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