Williams
United Kingdom
Where do you locate yourself in relation to the systems you work with?
Where are you heading, and what is pulling you there?
How would you describe the space your practice is currently unfolding in?
Description
FLOWERS is a new collaborative project by Kenta Cobayashi & Tyrone Williams utilising Al which was heavily referenced by their own work. From the ‘organic’ to the more ‘digitised’ aesthetic this series blurs the line between both worlds visually by extending the process of work that has already been manipulated into further digital realms. The unpredictability of the system output is celebrated and steered by the influence of Kenta & Tyrone’s vision in a mix of solo and collaborative images which reflects both their personal signature styles and a common language
Process
FLOWERS emerged between control and unpredictability, intention and chance. It reflects a desire to explore where photography sits today, and where it might be heading—blurring traditional boundaries while staying grounded in a strong, personal visual language.
Tools
Midjourney was used as the primary generative tool, with both artists feeding the system heavily curated reference images drawn from their own archives. These references formed the foundation of each prompt, ensuring the outputs remained closely tied to their established visual languages rather than relying on generic text-based generation. The process involved iterative prompting, remixing, and re-generation—allowing images to be progressively abstracted and transformed. Rather than treating AI as an autonomous creator, it was used as a responsive system, guided through careful prompt construction, image weighting, and selective curation. Outputs were then edited, refined, and sequenced by Kenta Kobayashi and Tyrone Williams, balancing the system’s unpredictability with intentional artistic control. The resulting works reflect a dialogue between authored imagery, machine interpretation, and collaborative decision-making.
Adriana Mora is a Mexican art director and multidisciplinary designer who works with various physical and digital techniques, but in recent years primarily with CGI. Adriana has been a designer for Apple in California and, more recently, for Google in New York City.
In his foundational text “The Art of Color,” Johannes Itten proposed that color carries an emotional and spiritual resonance that transcends the objects it clothes. This AI-generated piece by Tyrone in collaboration with Kenta takes that idea to its most radical conclusion.
The roses and blossoms don’t simply exist here, they fragment. Their organic forms splintering into iridescent shards of electric magentas, ultraviolet purples, and spectral yellows. The flowers are merely the catalyst, but color is the subject.
What makes this piece particularly compelling is how AI becomes the vehicle for that liberation. The machine doesn’t render flowers, it deconstructs them by dissolving botanical reality into pure chromatic energy. The objects surrender their identity so that color can speak uninterrupted.
The cold urban architecture framing this piece serves as the perfect foil. Against geometric rationality, color becomes rebellion, not describing nature but becoming it. I almost believe that the flowers were never the point, but probably they are the spark that ignites a spectral detonation, reminding us that beneath every visible surface, color was always waiting to outlive the form that carried it.
