AI + digital painting, 2023

What is a story or belief made of?
I am very aware of the story about Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden from growing up in the west world. For me it is a moral story and a myth from the Book of Genesis written by anon. The story consists and are made up by certain archetypes, symbols and features that exists in our collective consciousness.

When I started making this artwork, AI suggested me two (androgynous) persons. Both me and AI made up some signifiers that could be interpret as belonging to the story, or, have influenced the story writer of the original story, or me when creating this piece. Decoded by me they would signify: the tree of knowledge, snakes, a patriarch, the fisher king myth, the moon and an egg, blood in formal, the moment Orpheus is looking back at Eurydice, and so on. Everything mixed like a hodgepodge for our brains to put in order to make sense of.

And this is also how I image time being built. Time is like a big gas cloud of events and moments that might happen or not, made of colours and shapes forming moments that our brains can line up in order for it to make any sense to us. This is depicted in the texture, colour and shapes in the piece... like blood and ink in formal moving around. This piece is a frozen moment in time, neither past, present or future.

67. (Time is Not a Pearl Necklace)