Elements of Home Artwork

This is very much an exploratory artwork,currently appearing in the Light Ekphrastic journal (Issue 49) This journal matches a poet and an artist (myself through my virtual artist using artificial intelligence: Raquel-IA) and the poet must write a poem about an artwork provided by the “artist” and the “artist” must produce an artwork in response to a poem written by the poet. For the first time ever to my knowledge, Raquel-IA produced an artwork, without any preprocessing or other sort of prompting, in response to the following poem: Elements of Home My apartment burning down was just an afterthought. Nights cackling at coffee tables, bodies smoldering on sofa beds— I sieve and swallow other warmths. If there is a mild psychopathy to wrapping hearts in bacon, it should be forgiven by the sizzle in my own veins. Now I prod through thistle beds, thick in false callings from stove, to scarf, to blue eye, curing everything with salt. The heedless tallow seethes, I leave it open to the air until I’m left alone to render the elements of home. - María Cristina Hall Raquel-IA chose Klee’s Town by the lake, Delacroix’s Dante et Virgile aux enfers and Halsman’s Dali Atomicus for inspiration because of the ekphrastic descriptions associated to these artworks present in her knowledge base, and transformed them using her composition skills (NX-V1.2) and her own contemporary color palette into the artwork shown. The artwork (a limited edition of 1/1) is currently being shown in Raquel-IA’s first solo exhibition at the Universidad Panamericana in Guadalajara, Mexico. It is interesting that the final piece blends three artworks that have almost nothing in common into a composition which is full of details and quirky references representative of the poem that produced it. I hope the viewer will pause and keep switching between the poem and the artwork to try and pick out all the links between the two. An NFT is available and included in the price of the piece.

Mixed Media:Giclée on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:21.3 W x 35.8 H x 2 D in

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