a_picture_of_a_person, 2023, paper, machine stitching, cotton thread, DALLEE-2, papier mâché, plywood, masking tape

artist statement: 

Interrogating the artificial linkage between femininity and domesticity, as frequently represented by OpenAI’s DALL-E2, the work examines the tendency of AI image generation to promote systematic power imbalances despite being perceived as a ‘neutral’, forward-looking technology. 

The objects, vases and crockery, epitomise the constructed female-domestic association and its persistent, nostalgic position in collective memory. The objects are divorced from their expected materiality, delicacy, and consistency, creating something that is recognisably strange – mimicking the effect of the uncanny DALL-E2 generated images. Arduous domestic practices make visible homemaking’s implicit labour and comment on the consistent privileging of certain values by current ‘computer vision’.