DREAM SERIES
This series of work are AI generated images using descriptions of my dreams as a prompt. This body of work has been exhibited through the Augmented Society Network, A Royal Society of Arts Fellow Program.
I have been writing down my vivid and typically morbid dreams for years in hopes of a Jungian psychoanalyzation of my shadow and unconscious self. These AI images were generated with a paraphrased prompt describing a few of the many dreams I have recorded. It has been a contemplative process to paraphrase the main points of my dreams to build a potential composition. Which adjectives gain hierarchy in hopes of their presence in the generated image? Which result really is the best representation of the tone of the dream? Once the image is created, it still feels very personal that my creative brain somehow produced this imagery from deep within my subconscious. To bring back this human element into the final printed output, the prompt and the date of the dream are handwritten on the page.
I also have an alternative instagram page for experimental artwork: @gravesmichell3
A Captain’s Hat and a Camera
Prompt: I was running in a green field trying to blend in with the zombies. I was trying to compromise with one of them who had a captains hat and a camera that wasn't all the way dead yet.
Dream Date: Unknown but has remained a vivid dream for years
AI Generated: 2024
A Façade Painted in Geometric Shapes
Prompt: I was standing in front of a giant house with a façade painted in geometric shapes. I felt like I was facing a challenge
Dream Date: 20 June 2022
AI Generated: 2024
My Sister’s Old Room
Prompt: My sister’s old room had a glob of bugs dripping from the ceiling. I yelled for my deceased Grandpa who was downstairs.
Dream Date: 11 March 2024
AI Generated: 2024
So Many Satellites
Prompt: I was looking at the night sky and there were so many satellites. Suddenly they formed an octagon grid of lights and they flashed so bright, I had to look away.
Dream Date: 13 January 2022
AI Generated: 2024
That’s Uma. She’s Dead.
Prompt: As I looked around the pool party with my roller derby friends, I saw Uma walking by. I told the new girls, “That’s Uma. She’s dead.”
Dream Date: 15 November 2023 - soon after the death of my friend Uma Bomber aka Suzie Fisher who passed from Glioblastoma.
AI Generated: 2024
I Could Relate To Her
Prompt: I met a little girl who was telling me morbid things but that didn’t bother me. I could relate to her.
Dream Date: 9 April 2024
AI Generated: 2024
