This painting refers to the painting "Apple, Book, Knife, Legs" by Man Ray from 1941. The work details of the original painting were posed as a prompt to AI and countless variations were generated from it. Two selected AI images are painted in original size on canvas for this exhibition.
"An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.” Man Ray