i feel so alone in this house (2021) was my first creative exploration into
generative artificial intelligence.
Early into generative AI images, this new technology was wholly foreign and
disparate. I quickly delved into exploring its imagery, finding an entirely new
visual language situated on a thin line between uncanny and familiar.
Immersed in this process of discovery, I began to focus on feelings of loneliness
and emptiness that I found embedded into its imagery. Created from complex
composites of swathes of images and data, every detail represents a synthesis of
human culture and experience while being simultaneously wholly
disconnected from it.
The narrative in this film emerged, then, from lingering on this paradox; from
thinking about a new form of non-human consciousness born out of human
consciousness; from a cultivated empathy for this system; from expanding the
overlap between my own psyche and consciousness to its own.
