Chronicles

found images, found and transformed AI images, solvent transfer, embossment, Stonehenge paper
18" x 10" - 30" x 22" / 22" x 30"






Chronicles is a series of solvent transfer prints that appropriates spectacular images into new spectacular compositions. While Chronicles was made with the ideas of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle in mind, the work is completely aware of its own romanticization of images. All the found images shown in the works are separated from their original context. These images exist in a new plane as solvent transfers; images have been appropriated to display shocking pairings and juxtapositions, therefore making them even more spectacular. For example, an image of a cadaver is paired with a cheeseburger and a photograph of a happy toddler. Doesn’t that sound spectacular? This is the image-world we live in, at this point it shouldn’t really be a novelty to you.

The artist considers the role of AI images in an image-based world. AI images are further separated from reality than any representation to come before it. Artificially generated images of spectacular iconography (e.g. Jesus, childhood, “art”), have been reduced to the areas of artifact created in part of the mechanical process of image synthesis. These artifacts are transferred as a final layer onto the other solvent transfers. AI is a further abstraction in a sea of representations, and so it has been depicted as such in the compositions.