I made a series of 51 quick idea sketches and then experimented with "rendering" them via AI. I used Claude and Picsart to mediate the project. Predominantly the renders were executed in Nanobanana 2.1. The source sketch and a number of "style reference" images defined the prompt. The verbal prompt, was only instructions on how the model should use the provided visual materials and remained largely the same over the course of 250+ renders. The source sketches and the style references are what varied. Notably, I used a set of abstract monoprints,Laboratory of Hallucinations that I made in 2020, to give texture and color to the AI renderings. I also used a collection of "witchcraft" engravings from the 16th-18th centuries (left over from a video project called "Malificarum" that I made in 2018), as well as a collection of pulp sci-fi covers along with the images from the pulp collages, Pulp and Circumstance.

These images are related to a project in development, "LABAIRINTH". LABAIRINTH aspires to be a multimedia interactive synthesis of AI art media. The foundation of LABAIRINTH is a series of 99 Sonnets I composed over the past few years. These sonnets are beinng adapted to music via AI generative music platform, Suno. Below is a brief description of the project from my Suno profile:

These songs are part of an immersive art installation in production titled, "LABAIRINTH". The songs are based on the "99 Sonnets" composed by San Francisco artist, David Normal (davidnormal.net). Normal's vision is to create an interactive, immersive "LABAIRINTH" where words, music, and animation are generated in real time based on audience interaction. As visitors wander the LABAIRINTH, they trigger different songs and animations which fuse together into unique, novel forms through the generative power of AI and are projection mapped onto the translucent scrim walls of the LABAIRINTH. An "AIRIADNE", the muse of the LABAIRINTH, guides people to the center where they face the "MINDOTOR", a 3D printed, interactive sound-light sculpture that represents the fabled 'singularity'.