LisaNevot

I can tell my eye is getting better because my art is improving. Here is Jada!
She will be matted up to an 11x14. She needs her spray varnish. The back will be signed, dated and stamped. An authenticity certificate will come with her as well.

I like the stark white background for her.

I am excited to be healing.

Bit of a headache after completion. (Per usual) but results are satisfactory.
Feel free to reach out if you are interested or know of someone. Sharing this post also helps me get the word out. Thanks for your support!

Out of the archives 2017?

Post below is written by Kyra Wilson and I fully support this. Having a certification in therapeutic arts I have learned the ways art physiologically affects the body and brain.

Also this book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn more as to why AI is not art. It needs rebranding in my opinion.

“Yes, I’m anti-ai, but instead of arguing over why the image generation technology is so bad, why it’s not actually art, why they’re not actually creating… I think instead, I’ll focus on the part people seem to never grasp (and maybe it’s why they don’t understand the issue and think they’re “artists” in the first place.)

An artist experiences, processes, translates, and grows with each artistic endeavor. This involves your brain, your physical body, your soul - and so, when you use those things to pick up a pencil/brush/etc that is the switch that lights that infrastructure up!

Maybe what you create is a masterpiece, but maybe it’s awful instead… either way? You have grown, evolved, changed just a little bit for the better today. You have become more.

Entering a prompt into a machine deprives you of all of that. Your frustration isn’t about learning color and technique, or how to express your emotion through the physical manifestation of art. No, your frustration is the same as when you order DoorDash and the burger wasn’t cooked correctly; you didn’t learn anything about how to cook or what to change. You didn’t develop new skills or insight.

Art is actually failure, more often than it is success. Failure spurs growth. You learn, refine, and change. A failed prompt is just static noise, and a blackened void of where you would have grown, would have connected, would have evolved.

If you want to engage in art, and the reason you use ai is because you think you won’t be able to get it right and make something amazing on your first try picking up a brush, then you have let Ai image generation steal everything that art is really about from you. And you don’t even realize it.

Ai image generation isn’t accessibility, it’s theft. Not just from the illegally scraped images, but from YOU when you use it instead of relying on yourself. It’s stealing the accomplishment of you doing better and feeling proud. It’s stealing those neural connections and nervous system benefits. It’s stealing from you in ways you don’t even realize.

You gain more from doodling an awful poodle on a receipt, than you do from an image generator.

Ai data aggregation for science and purposes like that which assist living minds to understand and create new solutions to problems, I am for. I am even for the mold integration of helping keep track of certain day to day things (I think an assistant would help my parents as we enter into these dementia type areas, for example.) That sort of purposeful use definitely has a place.

The issue is all the misuse going on.” -Kyra Wilson.

Strangely yet reassuringly I wake up consistently hopeful.

Having my vision partially restored has given me a fresh perspective and gratitude. I have to take things slow but inside I am chomping at the bit to jump into life. Where before I was content to isolate.

So many twists and turns.
Nothing is forever. The only constant is change.

Music, art, friendship, and nourishment are my allies and truly continue to help me stay in the healthiest frame of mind.