To me, the concept of using artificial intelligence — which is fundamentally based on rational and algorithmic principles but can exhibit a degree of unpredictability due to its complexity, adaptability, and other factors — as a tool to create these landscapes of disorder feels first ironic and then interesting as to how do you rationalize and organize chaos, how do you make chance predictable and how does our human mind interact and collaborate with something that aims to emulate it
Houses serve as a powerful and apt symbol for this exploration, as they represent a wide array of meanings and emotions in our lives. They are not only physical shelters but also the homes that cradle our earliest memories and experiences. They hold the stories of countless lives and bear witness to generations of human existence. These structures stand as the centerpiece of my first experiments with AI photography. They draw inspiration from Carl Jung's transformative dream, where he found himself in an unknown yet intimately familiar house and as he moved through its floors, he became more aware of the connections between the house and the human psyche, with the top floor representing consciousness and the lower floors symbolizing the depths of the unconscious. It was a huge breakthrough moment.
Add that into the mix and it just seems more fitting in my mind to use the house as the element of interaction between me — my psyche — and the AI, which does not have that but intends to emulate it.
These artworks depict the ruins of a psyche, a structure, and a symbol, all of which are grounded in a place that has never existed. They present a simulacrum that transcends the boundaries of mind, society, past, present, and future. They carry human disequilibrium back into entropy. As we continue to probe these liminal spaces, we may come to uncover new perspectives on the nature of our own minds and the ever-evolving relationship between humanity and technology.