Dandelions
2020
Part of the Learning Nature series, Dandelions focuses on a specific botanical threshold: the brief transformation from yellow flower to white seed head. The machine, trained exclusively on photographs of this fleeting moment, generates interpretations that exist in their own liminal space — neither photographic nor abstract, but hovering between states like the transitional forms they attempt to represent. These works document how computational systems perceive and reconstruct natural metamorphosis, producing luminous geometric patterns that emerge from the gap between organic process and digital understanding.
This essay accompanied the solo exhibition “Liminal” at Hawk + Hive, Andes, NY, USA.
Manipulations
These dandelion images undergo further individual manipulation through custom code. Each intervention coaxes hidden patterns into visibility—structures that neural networks perceive but human vision cannot directly access. The manipulation process investigates the hypothesis that machines see differently than humans, revealing computational patterns embedded within the generated imagery.
Exhibition View
Related Work
Learning Nature • Winter Woods • Cloud Canyon - AI / machine learning generated images and videos
Little AI - AI / Machine learning sculpture
Darns - Manipulated and stitched AI / machine learning generated images
