Ashira 🎨👏🎩
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“Mutable”
Born from dyed paper, pigment, and fiber, Mutable is a digital portrait in motion—generated using an AI model trained on decades of handmade mixed media from my private archive, then glitched in post.
Mutable inhabits the liminal space between analog memory and digital evolution.
It explores the layered instability of identity as a form of strength. It asks: What is preserved in the shift? What is revealed in distortion?
The figure moves between iterations of self—fractured, folded into itself, and endlessly evolving, even when stepping back.
A portrait of transformation, not completion.
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In my dreams this morning I was making artwork in ways that don’t exist irl..
I was making artwork on a special type of paper was sort of like how one makes cyanotypes, but the work came out like a mix between photocopy, photogram, and photography— but in shades of lavender, the way a cyanotype is blue— and somehow no matter what I placed on the paper, which was a regular sized 8.5”x11”, it fit.. the test print I made in my dream was like a photogram bc I had somehow laid down on the 8.5”x11” paper on my side w my arm raised above my head, my hand shaped like half a heart, but the paper/image caught the different details of my body is a very slightly pixelated sort of way, like a photocopier would, and also caught the whole wood planked ceiling and other background stuff like the way a photo would, which I wasn’t expecting but felt grateful to understand— like I had learned something in that moment— so I know now that I was doing tests of how the paper/material worked.
Then I dipped the paper in a tray, the way one would dip a photo paper in darkroom chemicals, but it was just water and it wasn’t dark— so the way one would develop a cyanotype— and the developed image was different shades of lavender— the way a cyanotype would be different shades of blue.
As I was making the work, in my dream I was also thinking about how I make images in general, and how I fracture and collide and blend and glitch an rework— over and over— and I was doing this in preparation for a talk I’m giving on Sunday (IRL) about the work that I currently (IRL) have in an exhibit in Chinatown in LA.
When I woke up I realized it was all a dream and was immediately annoyed that I cannot actually make artwork in this way.
But— I can definitely use what I was thinking about for my talk on Sunday, in my actual talk on Sunday! 1 reply
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