An update, not written by AI

Starting 2023 off with a new Interview, an exhibition from an Italian master and seeing friends in the Sight Unseen Yearbook

NEW INTERVIEW

One of my favorite interviews to date. Have a look here.

NEW WORK

Nadia Yaron’s sculptures at Francis Gallery was one of my favorite exhibitions to date.
Frieze LA 11 best shows / World of Interiors Press / Sight Unseen

I am so grateful for the team at The Future Perfect for having me photograph Italian legend Gaetano Pesce’s pieces.

Surface Mag - Gaetano Pesce Dwells in the Future

Well Received is an interior design studio lead by Julie Van Daele, which recently completed Else Lingerie’s Santa Monica store.

Earlier this year I had the chance to work with Madelynn of Ringo Studio and made some portraits of her on site at her completed interior for Our Place on Melrose. Read her interview above.

I was so pleased to meet Jake Arnold and make portraits of him and his team at his newly completed project in Hancock Park. Thank you to long time collaborator Katie Miller for the introduction. See the portraits on their new website www.jakearnold.com

I’m so pleased to see images I made with Fyrn, Willo Perron and Nicholas Bijan Pourfard in the Sight Unseen 2022 yearbook. Read more here!

WHAT I’M LISTENING TO
House legend Kerri Chandler reel-to-reel mixing. / Boiler Room - Youtube
Kerri Chandler - On My Way / Spotify
Ananda Project - Release (2000) album / Spotify
Gloria Ann Taylor - Love is a Hurtin’ Thing (1973) 12” version / Spotify
20220123 by Ryuichi Sakamoto, may he rest in peace / Spotify

“Midjourney is an independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.  We are a small self-funded team focused on design, human infrastructure, and AI.” - From Midjourney’s about page

I saw this image made entirely from Midjourney’s AI and was really taken aback.  I almost couldn’t tell it wasn’t an actual image made from a real camera placed in a real home on planet EARTH.  I should have known it wasn’t real because every single frame of a separate room has the exact same perfect light quality. And if you shoot on location you know that light lasts for about a whole 10 minutes and then it’s gone. Not everlasting in every room at the same time!  My job would be so much easier if I could pause the rotation of the earth.

I think AI is about expansion.  In some ways it feels like the natural progression of intelligence online, despite how new and scary this feels in the copyright/usage realm of image creation.  But like all things, they build on top of itself, becomes more efficient, etc etc.  Google thinks for us, other forms of intelligence can correct our grammar when we mistype.  But I think we forget the most important piece of this: our participation.  What can google search for without our fingertips with a prompt? What can Midjourney create if no images are uploaded to the internet?  These creations aren’t sentient.  (Yet?)  To me it is starting to beg the question: How can we use AI to our advantage without it becoming the substitute to our own creations? I want to see it as a starting point. It also begs a counter-question of: If it was used in sinister or dishonest ways, are we intelligent enough to sense that it’s not authentic? Pope Francis’s white puffer jacket moment, anyone? We have a can of worms here. What do you really think about AI? Reply to this thread, I’d love to hear from you.

Ciao,
Liz