Emergent Patterns

Emergent Patterns is series of artworks that uses artificial intelligence (A.I) to explore the subject of generative patterns in art that emerge from a collection of inspirations. I create these works using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) working with a collection of flower paintings as my base material. However, over the process of creation, I zoom in and crop out various levels and details of the flower paintings to create a dataset for the AI to train on. The resultant work emerges as being reminiscent of the colors and aesthetic qualities of flower paintings, but in the form of a dream-like pattern without the concrete structure of the underlying still life art it emerges from.