Artist Statement

VISUAL DIARY1

Written by
Tristan D. Grey

Published
15^th Sep. 2023

_‘  a method of exploration on a theme  _’

Tristan D. Grey,
Artist

This series of photographic images is the result of an exploration into the medium of artificial intelligence and its impact on the creation of photo-like imagery. It started as a visual diary/sketchbook using AI and Photoshop to inform my artistic practice and idea-generation process. Asking myself, if AI can be used in a modern sketchbook way for new ideas to be tried and tested not as an end result in itself but rather as a method of exploration on a theme.

The results are a mix of AI and photo manipulation, typography and portraiture, testing the potential of AI image-generation software at times to create light and shadow studies of a face, at other times to try out different variations of one and the same shot, repeatedly, to find some inspiration along the process. Always trying to give the overly clean and perfect-looking AI images some more grit and texture, making them more haptic like old-school physical photographs, by painting over them, scratching into their surface, and adding noise and dirt.

To be continued...

All images are available as NFTs for purchase on OpenSea.

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3092 x 3093 px,
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3102 x 3102 px,
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3130 x 3130 px,
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4163 x 3648 px,
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10240 x 8826 px,
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[Available as a one-time NFT on the OpenSea marketplace.]