The rise of generative AI solutions available to the general public in the initial rush-to-market of companies flexing their bespoke algorithms created an unprecedented interest in this new form of imaging. Akin to the first wave(s) of both photographic and then filmic forms, these image generators were trained on the initial data sets of both acquired and pirated materials, and as such were much less polished and seamless than the platforms which soon followed and have since become powerfully uncanny in their renderings.

Hallmarks of early AI image generation were wonky limbs and hands with distorted and/or missing fingers (or indeed too many) and text which looked like the glyphs of some lost language. These aberrations were the signs of an emerging visual medium in its infancy, and much like the Daguerreotypes (and subsequently, polaroids) before them, these images speak to the technical origins of their becoming, framed and situated in a time scale with its own unique aesthetic manifestations.

The images below are a sampling of the works from the project. These 65 images (5" x 5" / 12.7 x 12.7cm each) are printed and mounted on aluminum behind glass with custom mounting brackets.