Selected Work / A generative art series
A generative art series
Afro-Caribbean futures, painted with a machine that learned the palette.
Self-directed creative R&D · 2024–2026
Role
Creative Director & Artist
Scope
AI-assisted art series — concept, generation, craft finishing
Outcome
A coherent six-work neon series with authorship intact — and a teachable method
Challenge
AI image tools drift toward generic sameness. The challenge was to produce a series that still carries authorship, craft, and cultural meaning — neon and cyberpunk light put in service of Afro-Caribbean and Afrofuturist storytelling — and to keep the method repeatable.
Opportunity
An artist’s intention is exactly what AI lacks. Twenty-five years of compositional judgment and a clear cultural point of view could direct the tools toward a signature visual language instead of accepting their defaults.
Strategy
Treat AI as one medium in a larger pipeline: cultural research and concept first, generation as exploration against a locked palette and motif system, then selection and finishing to exhibition standard.
Process
Built the series work by work — a cowrie-crowned portrait, a carnival dancer, a steel-pan elder, a light-woven basket, a bioluminescent sea ancestor, an orbital greenhouse — iterating prompts against the defined aesthetic and re-generating any piece that broke the series’ coherence.
Creative Direction
Owned the through-line: one palette of electric cyan and magenta on deep indigo, Afro-Caribbean motifs in every frame, painterly finish — so a viewer can tell the work is hers, not the model’s.
Outcome
Six works that read as one voice, published with a full case-study PDF — proof of fluent, critical, craft-led AI practice.
Lessons learned
The tool doesn’t have taste; you do. A series is a discipline, not a batch — coherence is the deliverable.
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