under the sea...

These last few weeks, it feels a little like we have all been living in a technicolour uncanny valley. Everywhere you turn you are beset by whimsical AI creations some of them produced to look like trailers for Wes Anderson movies

To be honest when I first came across the mermaids created by Jonas Peterson, the movement of the hair under the water was so realistic that for a moment I thought they were real photographs.

On his website he is very direct in pointing out and explaining that that these are digital paintings not photographs. He takes the time to explain the process he has used to create his work.

His more recent work Bon Voyage and This Desert Bloom is like Iris Apfel on acid. Not a bad thing to be fair

I've answered so many questions about this, but no matter how many times I said it was created using artificial intelligence, other people asked the exact same thing over and over again, so I've simply stopped. I’m not here to debate the process, I’m a professional photographer, writer and artist myself, I understand the implications, how this will affect many creative fields in the future. I’m simply using a tool available to me to tell stories, the same way I’ve always told stories – to move people. To me that is the point of this, not how I did it.

Dissecting something will almost always kill it.

Just enjoy the technicolour ride!

Queen Marie