WRITING

"Mickey Mouse with a gun on glitter paper" was recently described to me as a useful framework for thinking about that makes a print: subject, conflict and physical materials used.

“As stupid as a painter” —Marcel Duchamp. The disappointment I have with visual generative AI is the deluge of trite, cliched and derivative imagery that’s produced with it. Midjourney’s explore homepage, for example, is an endless scrolling wall of fantasy art, cutesy images, cartoonish animations, and sexy virtual models. (Aesthetically disappointing, but perhaps anthropologically insightful, a snapshot of our collective cultural consciousness. Also disappointing.) Often,