Research Log: Entry #4 “I wouldn’t stop going on about how amazing the moon looked in the water so some of my shipmates came and tampered with the pools. I don’t know what they poured in the water. For many days, it appeared they had killed whatever was growing in there and I was inconsolable. But now I notice some sort of chemical reaction occurring, and it seems the pools are coming back to life! I don’t know why the others are picking on me. They have their own mission here to keep them occupied but I’ll need to keep a closer watch on the pools to make sure they don’t harm them again. Nothing else to report.” - The Researcher

This unique tide pool began with a hand selected computer generated image created from a machine learning model. I trained the model using only photographs of my original abstract paintings which are influenced by science and the sea. I then animated the image using Adobe After Effects.

The “Renascentium” release is the 4th generation. Each release in this collection will “evolve” over time and is a part of the story that runs through the collection’s item descriptions.

"Each of them in his own tempo and with his own voice discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing and that one thing is all things—plankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again." John Steinbeck