| FROM AN ABANDONED WORK
PHOTOGRAPHY + AI
“I had been thinking about ways of combining photography, painting, and generative AI when I recently found myself driving through Los Angeles Chinatown — a square mile that, pre-pandemic, vibrated with activity. The dim sum palaces stood empty, half the stores were shuttered, malls were abandoned, and windows were tagged with graffiti. After an hour of exploring the area on foot, I began taking pictures of my reflection in the plate glass windows of an empty restaurant on Hill Street.”
Self-portrait and street photography combined with generative AI and digital painting, From An Abandoned Work (82” x 42”), which takes its title from a short work by Samuel Beckett, invites the viewer to explore the relationship between reflection and observation, presence and absence.
I had been thinking about ways of combining photography, painting, and generative AI when I recently found myself driving through LA Chinatown — a square mile that, pre-pandemic, vibrated with activity. The dim sum palaces stood empty, half the stores were shuttered, malls were abandoned, and windows were tagged with graffiti. After an hour of exploring the area on foot, I began to take pictures of my reflection in the plate glass windows of an empty restaurant on Hill Street.