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About LYN BELISLE

the

Artist &

the Like every Enso Circle Resident, Michelle and I set a personal goal

for the twelve-week term and work alongside the Resident fellow artists
Work as part of the community. This practice ensures that we are not just the

Circle “leaders,” but are empathetic participants in the process.

My focus this term has been a quiet and personal exploration of AI
technology as it defines and interprets my own body of work in clay and
assemblage. I used Midjourney as my chosen AI tool.

The top example shows an interpretation of one of my figurative
sculptures. The original is on the left, the AI result is on the right. The AI

interpretation brings a strange kind of two-dimensional implied narrative
to the original work.

A similar thing happens in the piece on the bottom left. AI “humanizes”
my clay shard faces and gives them human emotions and features. The

final piece on bottom right is the result of a written prompt that produced
the young girl and the rabbit. It’s an intriguing result because there’s
something not quite right about it despite its realism.

AI is a remarkable artist’s tool for anaylsis and self-critique. As artists,
we comment on society and community. Exploration is in our DNA. I
have come to no formal conslusion about the uses of AI as a tool, but
the questions it has raised for me over the past twelve weeks have

expanded my thoughts about the definitions of what “art” is. It’s a
profound experience.

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