I think there are issues to be clarified with SAQA and probably all groups who run juried fibre and textile exhibitions, regarding AI generated design ideas developed from an image of the artist’s own work the algorithm is supplied with.
Here I’m considering possibilities of further development of one of my own works, the full image of which I gave to ChatGPT and posted about a few weeks ago – that post includes its responses. As I think to use one of those would be technically a collaboration, I’m not using any of them.
Here’s a detail from that same quilt diptych, “Sweat Of The Sun: Tears Of The Moon” 2018.
This morning, true to form, I captured my own thought in this quick diagram using ballpoint on some scrap paper. Diagrams are my shorthand – and this one has captured enough of an idea to go forward with a work for the SAQA Oceania Region exhibition with the theme of ‘Opposites’. The end result will probably look nothing like what this suggests to you, but I can start from this point 🙂
And now I need to consider colours and techniques I could use for this small work, 50cm x 70cm in portrait orientation. I drew it up this way, and in editing I rotated it 180 degrees, but interestingly it looked really wrong that way. Black and white’s a bit obvious, a cliche perhaps, but we’ll see… but it’s time to take a walk and return to my puffs and glass beads.