Maohi Encounter Artwork - Limited Edition of 50

What if we could create new and unique visions of art that could have never existed nor imagined? Christian Wilson creates art that reimagines physical reality through the lens of artificial intelligence (AI). His work utilizes the newest tools of AI, which enable physical reality to be reimagined, mixing themes and time periods to create impossible, but beautiful, combinations. It explores the question: Can AI be used to create new and unique visions of art? His current work imagines how Renaissance masters might have rendered Polynesian subjects, sometimes in settings as surreal as underwater forests or flower gardens. He employs four different AI tools, priming them with evocative words and phrases such as “women”, “Polynesian”, “underwater”,“mountains”, and “flower crowns”, and experimenting with and guiding the output until satisfied with the artistic product. He also collaborated in this work with two other artists, one from Poland and one from Indonesia. Christian’s artistic instincts were encouraged by his father, a lifelong photographer who has a 35-year career with Eastman Kodak. Recognizing his son’s talent with pastels, he sought to broaden Christian’s artistic scope by providing him (at age 13) with a darkroom in their home. Christian’s art underscores the idea that the imagination is a dynamic force that can change the way we see the world. It illustrates to us that one power of words resides in their ability to spark the imagination and render it in paint. The fact that AI lends itself as a tool in this endeavor does not make the product any less a product of human imagination – rather, it opens up new avenues of creativity for artists to explore.