Many people find guidance from animal messengers that come into our lives at key moments to help us move through challenges and point us in the right direction. Across cultures, horned creatures represent connection to spirit, with horns and antlers acting like antennae to other realms. Deer and antelope are known by many cultures to deliver a message of peace.
This synthetic photography, or post-photography, was made in collaboration with neural networks. I spent a year developing a system of prompts and techniques to produce work in a photographic language that syncs with my lens-based practice. Using my own photography, drawings, and collages as inputs transforms these technologies into personalized, expressive instruments. AI enables me to express ideas and tell stories (some that have lived in my imagination for a decade!) that I had not previously been able to produce through any other medium.