Arrival

Arrival is a world building exercise co-created with Generative AI. Using learnings from Chicano Alien Desert Rave, I developed an adjacent series of Gen AI visuals using a more primitive aesthetic. Rather than staying in the flat, symbolic space I opted to bring the manipulated visuals back through Midjourney, giving the series an added layer of texture, depth, noise and other nuances. Created with Midjourney V6 (Retexture, SREF), Adobe CC, Suno V4, and Runway Gen3, each work uses 1 or more “layers” created using a variation of prompts sharing common words such as:

minimal, iconic, alien life form, in the style of [Paul Rand, Noguchi, Picasso] --weird 333 --v 5.2