Bright Moments Flex

The **Spongenuity Portrait Lab** was hosted by Bright Moments in July 2022. 
Every generative portrait in this collection is of a person who came IRL to the London gallery that month. 
Each person was photographed, and each photograph was generatively converted into a one line drawing, which was then plotted in real time.

The Portrait Lab was an amazing opportunity to embrace and explore the link between physical and digital and with these outputs I hope to explore a little further.

The pieces are a live animation, following the same path that the plotter did during the session, however, when in live mode, there are 3 outputs that you can trigger.

Press " 1 " for a .png output 
Press " 2 " for a .svg output ( so you can plot your own )
Press " 3 " for a .dst output (Generative Embroidery), This will trigger a live converter in your browser and give you a file that you can use to embroider your piece.

Spongenuity"s Portrait Lab #93

Spongenuity"s Portrait Lab #94

Spongenuity"s Portrait Lab #95

Spongenuity"s Portrait Lab #96

Spongenuity"s Portrait Lab #97

Spongenuity"s Portrait Lab #99

paracosm: noun. An intricate imaginary world born in childhood. Often begun as a subconscious escape from traumatic experience, the child forms deep connections with the paracosm, including complex relationships with its characters and settings that shape the creator"s personality as they age. Existing with its own unique geography and lore, this world grows more sophisticated with time, potentially enduring into adulthood.

If one is invited into a paracosm by its creator, it will often come in pieces. Their world is secret and sacred, as deeply personal as the innermost self. Sharing it with another makes them forever part of that world, and by proxy, forever part of its creator.

This collection is a visualization of part of the artist"s paracosm. A text-to-image model was trained on some of their memories of that world and its inhabitants. Each piece at mint will be cropped, with the intention of serving as a window to look inside. After the exhibition completes, collectors pieces will fully reveal, rich in narrative detail and sentiment. In this way, the artist is inviting you, step by step, into their world--and by proxy, to become forever part of it.

paracosm #8

paracosm #18

paracosm #50

paracosm #54

paracosm #62

paracosm #66

paracosm #72

paracosm #73

paracosm #74

paracosm: noun. An intricate imaginary world born in childhood. Often begun as a subconscious escape from traumatic experience, the child forms deep connections with the paracosm, including complex relationships with its characters and settings that shape the creator's personality as they age. Existing with its own unique geography and lore, this world grows more sophisticated with time, potentially enduring into adulthood.

If one is invited into a paracosm by its creator, it will often come in pieces. Their world is secret and sacred, as deeply personal as the innermost self. Sharing it with another makes them forever part of that world, and by proxy, forever part of its creator.

This collection is a visualization of part of the artist's paracosm. A text-to-image model was trained on some of their memories of that world and its inhabitants. Each piece at mint will be cropped, with the intention of serving as a window to look inside. After the exhibition completes, collectors pieces will fully reveal, rich in narrative detail and sentiment. In this way, the artist is inviting you, step by step, into their world--and by proxy, to become forever part of it.

paracosm #75

paracosm #83

paracosm #86