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Gil

Germany

Artist Statement

Statement of Truth In an age of intelligent systems and automated aesthetics, I decided to work with the power of the still image. Stillness as resistance. Not silence, but pause. Not nostalgia, but presence. I use AI not to outsource creation. I understand AI as a collaborator—helping me understand and unfold my work in new directions. It creates friction through glitches and hallucinations that prompt me to question my practice and embrace uncertainty. Working with AI is like walking a strange terrain: seduction and suspicion, wonder and warning. But I do not hand over authorship—I stay close. I guide, interrupt, question. I do not seek answers in my work; I work with images the way one might hold a question. Since beginning my collaboration with AI, my work has deepened around themes of extraction, collapse, and transformation—not only ecological, but existential. We are living in a time when structures—political, emotional, planetary—are crumbling. I do not aim to represent this collapse, but to inhabit it. To frame the ambiguity. To let the image breathe in uncertainty. I believe art must remain a site of doubt, not just production. A space where meaning is not given, but wrestled with. In these still frames, I place my doubts. I hold them, not to solve, but to make space—for slowness, for tension, for seeing differently. The landscape may be digital. But the urgency is deeply human. This is my truth: I use the tools that point to the future to make sense of a present that feels increasingly unstable. I work on the surface of technology—I don’t code, nor do I seek to master the system. I’m trying to feel my way through it.

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The AI Art Magazine, Number 2
Erosion, AI generation, 2025
Erosion, AI generation, 2025.
Gil, Erosion, AI generation, 2025

Description

Extraction, disquiet. Erosion is not only geological—it is temporal, emotional, systemic. What once felt solid now shifts. Certainties wear down, truths blur. Yet beneath the surface, the Earth still pulses. This work stands at the edge of collapse—not with spectacle, but with quiet insistence. It traces the slow unravelling of a world under pressure: technological acceleration, ecological fatigue, political regression, inner unrest. It does not mourn the ruins—it pauses within them, asking what remains when so much is in flux. Part of the Lithium Landscapes series, this piece continues an exploration of the tensions between surface and depth, allure and aftermath. It reflects on the entanglement between emerging technologies and sustainability—not as a solution, but as a question. Here, AI is present, but not central. It is a collaborator in a process of distillation—filtering noise into a single frame. A still image that resists urgency. A fragment of the present, crumbling in slow motion.

Process

This work evolved through experimentation with AI in my Lithium Landscapes Collection—an ongoing exploration of the tension between technological promise and environmental consequence. I was moved by mixed feelings: a deep sense that something foundational is eroding—ecosystems, truths, systems of meaning—and at the same time, a sense of curiosity and excitement about the possibilities of AI. I approached it not as a neutral tool, but as a frictional presence—introducing glitches, distortions, and hallucinations that pushed me to the edge of my practice. These interruptions challenged what I thought I knew, leading me into unexpected visual and conceptual terrain. This image was born from that space of uncertainty, where collapse and creation coexist. It also reflects the instability and ambiguity of the moment we are living in.

Tools

I used Stability AI’s DreamStudio, feeding it with my own digital collages inspired by satellite imagery of the Salar de Atacama in Chile, captured via Google Earth. Through an iterative process of creatively prompting, re-feeding, and curating, I collaborated with the AI to shape the image. It was a journey through glitches and hallucinations—fragments, distortions, unexpected textures—until I arrived at this striking still image. The process was not linear, but layered: a dialogue between my initial intention and the paths opened by the machine, which I chose to embrace. It became a journey between memory and speculation, intention and experimentation.

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The AI Art Magazine, Number 2
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The AI Art Magazine, Number 2,
September 2025
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