Dandelions

AI / Machine Learning generated images. 2020.

These images were created by training the machine on photos I took of dandelions at the moment of their brief transition from yellow flower to white seed head. The yellow flower petals, drying-up, barely there any more. The seeds not quite fully formed, but beginning to assert themselves. All so delicate, but doing exactly what they were designed to do – disperse themselves.

Perhaps this is a metaphor for our current moment – a fragile world blowing apart, but ready with the seeds for a new future.

This essay accompanied the solo exhibition “Liminal” at Hawk + Hive, Andes, NY, USA.

Dandelion (b63n,10800-20,6,3,19,8)

Dandelion (b63n,14000,20,5,28,17,46,55) Dandelion (b63o,13816,2)

Dandelion (b63o,7052,4)

Manipulations

These images have been further manipulated with custom code. By manipulating the machine-created images I seek to reveal that which is not visible to us, but may be apparent, perhaps even obvious, to the machine.

Dandelion (b63o,5583,3-20,11,16,11,29,40)

Dandelion (b63n,14000,20,5,28,17,45,43) Dandelion (b63o,5583,3)

Dandelion (b63n,2647,4-20,11,12,19,6,)

Exhibition View

Terrain Gallery, India Art Fair, Delhi, India