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I was sure AI art was just a gimmick until I saw a show in Portland last week
For the last few years, I thought AI art was just weird pictures made by a computer, nothing with real feeling. Then last week, I went to a small gallery in Portland called 'Digital Echoes' that changed my mind. The whole show was made with a tool called Midjourney, but the artist had trained it on her own photos from a decade of hiking the Pacific Northwest. The images weren't just random. You could see the exact light from a forest in Oregon or the fog on the Columbia River. It felt like her memory, but filtered through something new. I guess I didn't get that the person still guides the whole thing, picking and shaping what comes out. Has anyone else had a moment where an AI creation actually felt personal to them?
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laura_lane6mo ago
My cousin used a similar process with old family photos, and the results felt weirdly familiar. It was like seeing his childhood through a foggy window.
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angelamason6mo ago
Wow, that's a really good way to put it. I used to think messing with old photos just made them look fake and kinda pointless. But hearing what @laura_lane said about her cousin, that "foggy window" feeling, it totally clicked for me. It's not about making a perfect new picture. It's more like the process itself brings up a mood or a half-remembered feeling you can't get from just a clear scan. It makes the memory feel more real, even if the image is less sharp. That changed my whole view on it.
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