Waveforms

After experiencing a period of compound loss and illness, I needed to find a healing way back to living and creating. With minimal energy available, I vowed to simply show up, hold space for myself, and put paint on paper. I continued creating intuitive work with traditional mediums and accumulated what I now view as a phenomenological dataset.

Around 2019, I discovered a generative machine learning model that I could train using my art, and it felt like absolute magic. I was immediately drawn to the reflective nature of artificial intelligence, its ability to converse beyond language, and how it relates to the therapeutic process. I could see patterns taking shape and the Waveforms emerged.

Using wavelike stills generated from my original works, I began creating meditative short looping videos. The shifting shapes and colors present views of prolonged underwater moments, looking up through the water toward the sun, or turn to a calm rhythmic ripple upon the surface.

I continue this practice of creating, reflecting, and processing with traditional and new media. It has become it’s own rhythm I think about how we, as humans, find waves to be calming. Even digital representations of water are physiologically calming to the body. I wonder about the wild nature of our inner selves, and if just seeing it reflected helps us make sense of it and the micro and macrocosms we exist in. For myself and the viewer, I have found that the Waveforms help access acceptance, harmony, and radical hope.