What do you get when you combine photography and painting?
This weekend I used Midjourney to explore a visual direction that blends painted flowers into a photorealistic scene, bringing the two mediums together into something slightly surreal.
What happens when propaganda designed to erase the self gets pointed at the self instead?
Soviet propaganda spent 70 years trying to erase the individual soul in favour of the collective machine. I pointed that exact visual language at the thing it was built to suppress.
Art built to make everyone the same, now used to talk about finding yourself, is a brilliant flip and you described it better than the caption did. The halftone grain and that limited red, navy and cream palette carry the whole message. Sharp eye for sharing this.
Along the way my PTS score on Contra went up too, which makes this milestone even more meaningful. It’s not just about the number: it’s all the projects, clients, late nights, ideas, mistakes, and lessons that got...