“Yes, I’ve heard of the ‘three eights’. Fascinating concept.”
When Olokun, god of the oceans, threatened to discipline humanity with yet another deluge, Obatala the sky god intervened: it was decided that Olokun be restrained in the watery depths. For this, Ogun, god of war and technology was called upon. Ogun, like his Graeco-Roman analogues, Hephaestus / Vulcan is your talented blacksmith, technologist, and master of weapons. Like his Mediterranean ...
Not to be outdone by her male counterpart, the First Lady of the Oceans also put in an appearance at the underwater terminal.
“In assemblages you you find states of things, bodies, various combinations of bodies, hodgepodges; but you also find utterances, modes of expression, and whole regimes of signs.“ Gilles Deleuze The Armoured Girl series is an exercise in totemic human / animal capture and their resulting assemblages. Using Midjourney, the generative AI, I worked with Grace Jones and Benjamin ...
After centuries of rumored incarceration, the ocean god makes an appearance at the Atlantic Terminal.
Just because.
“In assemblages you you find states of things, bodies, various combinations of bodies, hodgepodges; but you also find utterances, modes of expression, and whole regimes of signs.“ Gilles Deleuze The Armoured Girl series is an exercise in totemic human / animal capture and their resulting assemblages. Using Midjourney, the generative AI, I worked with Grace Jones and Benjamin ...
Polaroids of Mistress Erzulie and her cohort at the famed discothéque.
I recently “entered” the Midjourney chat room. Midjourney is a image generative AI that is triggered by text prompts, and is what every art director in the universe has been dreaming of. My initial interest was its application as a storyboard, but in general its propensity of alchemy is well, intoxicating…The beauty of this generative AI is the unexpected beasts derived from ...
Having a generative AI tool breeds all kinds of mischief, there is no limit to the chimeras made manifest. This is how I found myself imagining the mighty Joan Crawford paired with the might Rei Kawakubo. Of course, Midjourney can’t be counted on to give you what you exactly want, but if you allow for dialogue with the AI, a curious and rewarding space opens up. And this is how we find ...
A conversation I moderated between Camille Norment and Okwui Okpokwasili.
A dark fairytale, a crepuscular fable for the times we live in...