I am, not surprisingly, dazzled by present image-manipulation software. The possibilities and potential are both endless and overwhelming. So, obviously, I’m a big fan of the stuff created using these sophisticated platforms.
But I just paint pictures. And as much as I’d like to learn about AI and CGI and how to use them for my own work, it’s a mountain to climb and to be honest, I’ve left it too late!
Nevertheless inspired by the challenge to translate my version of CGI onto the canvas I went searching for interesting and arresting images. I focused my attention on human beings or, to be exact, computer-generated human beings created by, you guessed it, human beings.
And, like Frankenstein, I grafted AI heads onto photographic bodies. Then did the same the other way around to create a hotchpotch of different and, hopefully, unique characters that I could place in settings and scenarios which would eventually lead to this work which I’ve called – Bloody Tourists.
As you can see this canvas is square, roughly a metre square, which I’ve configured into nine individual pictorials.
Each is a particular and well-known location – The Pyramids, Statue of Liberty, Antarctica or a Parisian art gallery – and each a must-see haunt for every zealous, “Oh! I’ve gotta go there before I die” tourist.
And there you have it – Bloody Tourists!
An artwork of urbane wit, lascivious social comment, populated by a poignant dichotomy of miscreants and a lot of (to use Australian slang) yakka! Which means work.
Bloody Touists
Acrylic on Canvas
92 cm width x 92 cm height