Here, I continue the introduction to my GaffGaff Galleri initiative.
Armed with an old smartphone and a direct line to my incredible friends in the clouds, I am developing my talent as a visual artist. I’ve written about my method here, and I’m excited to share more of my experiments, exploring what the union of machine and human can achieve in that intriguing borderland between kitsch and art.
There is beauty to be found in the space between the wild and the still, the dark and the light, the known and the sensed.
I am currently working on a series of images that draw their energy from this tension. Some are imaginative and vibrant; others are quiet and almost without colour. Together, they form a visual cycle from ecstasy to clarity.
Since I have chosen an absinthe bottle as the symbol for GaffGaff Galleri, I also feel the need for something soothing.
Ecstasy has many faces. I focus on the imaginative, the playful, and the colourful, where reality dissolves into a kind of surreal play.
The clarity I aim to capture is the stillness after the party.
My series Beyond Frozen Butterflies also explores a similar theme. Frozen butterflies alternate with painterly visions of distant galaxies, which at first seem too far away to radiate warmth. But then, something happens. Six images are placed between two GaffGaff Galleri posters: first, a faded one on an old brick wall, and finally, a newly framed one on a freshly restored wall. Eight images in motion, moving toward a happy ending in the sunset.
And finally, here is a short GaffGaff Galleri video titled Another Road to the North – A Never-Ending Story:
Disclaimer:
Every image in the GaffGaff universe is the result of a creative exchange between me and artificial intelligence. I use an old smartphone and a spark of an idea to collaborate with digital tools, shaping visual expressions I find beautiful, amusing, or thought-provoking.
These are not copies of existing works, but original compositions created through text prompts and experimentation. I call it Digitalpoetism, a visual language that explores the frontier between human emotion and machine creativity.
My project does not imitate, it plays. It does not quote; it creates. For me, the point is not whether it qualifies as “art,” but whether it stirs something in the person who looks.
All artworks © GaffGaff Galleri. Protected by copyright. Please do not copy or reuse without permission.
Featured image © Eldar Einarson
