In the Wellcome Collection I found a little-known set of trade portraits painted around 1840 by an unnamed artist from Tanjore, in present-day Tamil Nadu.
Each plate shows a working man and “his wife” on a flat yellow ground under a cloudy sky, with long brushy shadows and a...
What I built:
Malli Gowder, an oral historian in the Nilgiri hills, and her pilot "The Seed." Sorting her late grandmother's house, she finds an unlabeled tin of seeds, the one object with no story attached, and holding it pulls her into a memory of the one thing her grandmother...
Chasing warmth and texture in this set. Testing how far warmth and fabric texture can hold up for a clothing concept. Less about a single subject, more about how far golden-hour light and physical texture can hold up when built entirely in AI.