My art practice invites you to become part of an unfolding story where the doors of curiosity are thrown open, creativity flourishes and hope is a constant companion.
We run the gauntlet daily, surrounded by deft pickpockets with nimble fingers. Their seductive promises and misdirection lull the unwary traveller into a numbing fog so they can steal your attention and poison the waters of your creative well. My art explores a parallel universe where Irish mythology crosses over into today’s world.
Imagine balancing the pull of an algorithm and your potential for creative transformation. To make art that helps us to connect as creative beings is a magical act of hope. You make something out of nothing, an illusion embodied in reality that’s given life by our shared imagination.
What if we
- fed our curiosity with questions that call us to embark on an odyssey of enlightenment?
- walked in the world as engaged beings of vision?
- took a step onto the upward spiral of the artist’s journey?
Engage in art not just as an object of decoration but as a different way of being, another way of seeing, a portal to creative nourishment.
What could I do, to create an art project that feeds your curiosity?
If I choose your idea, you will receive the original of this little drawing.
You can prompt me by adding a comment at the end of the page. I’ll announce the winner in my newsletter.
Invite a Friend: One for you, one for them
Thanks to your advocacy, my little labour of love is slowly growing. You can share this newsletter and anything else I create without obligation. I am always grateful and moved whenever I meet someone who found my art through you.
Two heads are better than one. If you invite a friend to make a suggestion and I use their idea, then you’ll both get a drawing.
Dear Anthony,
I wanted to take a moment to express my deep appreciation for the emotions your art invites us on especially it’s so detailed and that’s why you cleverly keep them black and white. Your ability to merge Irish mythology with the contemporary world is really great. I feel more intrigued to read about some of the stories.
In response to your question I think Art is a portal to a different way of seeing and being. So what if your next art shows how art is a portal?
Thanks 🙂
Thanks Sakib
That’s a very ‘meta’ approach. Portals within portals.
Cheers
Anthony
* 13 sad farewells
* pour decisions
* joyful bitches
* beyond the underbelly
Thanks!
Not just one idea either but four!
Fionn Mac Cumhaill in Sydney Harbour watching the aboriginal flag on the bridge being flown at half mast.
Some ideas:
– Time drifts away
– Simple pleasures
– Grounding humanity
– Portable visual identity
Thanks Ean
Every one of those has potential. You’ve got me thinking (and we know where that goes!) 🙂
Ant
Where are our souls? (I’m struggling to answer that question for my five year old… despite being dragged up as an Irish catholic, I’m not religious at all so I can only assume some pesky teacher put the idea in my daughter’s head) but I like the idea of a soul. Is it muddled inside amongst our organs, our inner monologue, an access point to a collective consciousness, a tree? Regardless of whether the thought inspires you any help answering gratefully received!
Hello Mr Q…
Artistic journey co-creation…❤️ this…
💡how might we tell the story of a blossoming AI construct…where ‘learning’ is the motivator upon all pathways of experience…
“A day in the life of ‘Alistair Interest’ – a representation of a language model on it’s journey to knowledge englightenment.”
Well hallo JD!
Love these. Thank you so much.
I read this great book called ‘You Look Like a Thing and I Love You’, by Janelle Shane. She also has a blog called ‘AI Weirdness’. It was entertaining and enlightening and kicked me off on my journey of playing with AI, thinking about it and trying to understand it by making art sometimes about it, sometimes with it. I make all my drawings by hand but I use it for bits and bats, bouncing ideas around and the like. Anyway, it really made me appreciate that generative AI is actually quite ‘creative’, in itself because it comes up with novel solutions to problems or challenges you throw at it.
I love your suggestion because it makes me think, and it’s a journey prompt.
Thanks kindly!
Ant
Hey Ant…yes the process of thinking and articulation of initial creative notions is definitely where AI can ‘augment’ and support our internal manifestations of ‘what next’. AI def doesn’t have to be just generative of a tangible aesthetic product. It helps me gain clarity of the types of ‘curious’ questions I can ask.
looking forward to seeing more of your beautiful work.
Hi Anthony, love this idea. I’m not sure I’m feeding into this correctly so tell me if I’m off track, but currently at my cousins place with two dogs that need taking for a walk. Half the time I think they’re the ones leading me, nudging me to get out and get some exercise – they go through the motions but they know their resident human needs to be taken out for some fresh air, a who is taking care of who scenario. Cheers, Richard
Hi Richard
That’s cool and it’s bang on. My question was a prompt…to generate prompts to get me thinking outside of my own box. That’s what you just did for me. I also like the idea of the ‘who is taking care of who’ and also, it reminds me of the notion that I once read about how crows have a different consciousness to us. It was proven by science that (a) they have a consciousness and that (b) it’s not the same as ours. Don’t ask me how you figure that out…
Thanks for thinking of me and enjoy the time with the dogs.
BTW: have you read the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? If you like a read, I recommend it. Gets right into some ideas that are presented as comedic and farcical but along the same lines…