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Billy Quinn 1954
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Shaw (enough)
Shaw (enough)

And words generate images, and images generate words, and ideas generate both together, and now there's this miraculous 'machine' that does it. I have always worked with words and images, right from the beginning. I love the circulatory aspect of it all. It's like breathing, or like the blood coursing through that system. I like this 'machine', this A.!., mostly because we, this hapless mammal species, made it.

It's like the sculpture coming to life in Shaw's 'Pygmalion', and like everything else, it has this life of its own, it can veer out of control. And when the artist falls in love with the product of his, or her, rendering/rendings, they are lost. It's great to feel lost again at almost 70.

I love the hands particularly, that other 'out-of-controlness', the too masculine hand on the female in red, and the flapping linguine mess in the middle between the two female heads.

This text produced this image, and vice versa.

The whole of art history is there to be pilfered, and this is our birthright. As I said in an earlier image, I don't refer to living artists (respecting their copyright), but the history of our species over countless eons is there for the harvesting. Personally, I choose to make everything I make copyright free, in the hope that someone somewhere, perhaps some time (any time), might make it better.

The goal might be to suggest a continuity and even to recognise oneself (meaning every self) as part of it.

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Taken on: February 18, 2023
Sets appears in:   • Countdown    • Correcting the Masters    more » • Piggy Pygmalion    • The Fungimentals    « less
Groups appears in:   • Images and Words    • Stable Diffusion   
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