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OVERHEARD IN THE DAO ↴ Words by @eddijones on this week's triumphant @botto mint: The inherent “wrongness” of AI art is amplified in Botto’s newest mint, which presents an unnatural, duoscopic view of a classical beach scene. Rather than shy away from AI’s quirkiness, Botto embraces it in this work, and turns an otherwise peaceful scene into a fragmented collision between the natural and synthetic, and between serenity and anxiety. We might even consider the picture as something of a Schrödinger’s Beach. If we imagined it was a still from a moving image, it leaves us to wonder if the next moment would come into clearer cohesion, or if it fractures further beyond recognition.
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CONTINUED ↴ In the top half of the image, a lone figure appears to be returning our gaze. We’ve interrupted his solitude and perhaps breaking the experience of serenity that comes when staring into vast oceanscapes. Litter-looking objects blow in the breeze, further suggesting emptiness and a certain encroachments of humanity into the natural world. Below, there are two figures who appear almost as if they are hunting across the beach’s expanse, and a small reflection in the puddle suggests an object overhead, a hint of further narrative that’s beyond our grasp. It’s natural to assume that each of these vignettes suggest two separate moments. If we start to imagine which scene is before and which is after, it sets alight all sorts of imaginings, through which Botto is asking each of us to complete the image in our own visions.
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