TEXTURES
  • an ongoing exploration of surface, simulation,
  • and tactility in the age of generative tools.
  • less about accuracy, more

  • about evoking sensation

  • TEXTURE LIBRARY: scanning, photographing, collecting and hand-drawing a library of textures pulled from everyday materials. peeling paint, fabric, metal, skin, stone.

COLLECTED IMAGE
PERSONAL SKETCH
PERSONAL IMAGE
COLLECTED IMAGE
PERSONAL SKETCH
PERSONAL IMAGE
PERSONAL SKETCH
COLLECTED IMAGE
PERSONAL IMAGE
COLLECTED IMAGE

PERSONAL IMAGE

These raw assets were then refined using Midjourney to create hyperreal and surreal variations, playing with believability and artifice.


  1. Photograph > extract color palette

  2. Hand-draw micro-textures

  3. Convert rubbings into grayscale bump maps

  4. Use as grounding for AI collages (latent → tactile_)

From there, the images were processed through tools like Kling, Pika, and Krea, using language to push the forms into motion.


    I am trying to use the work to question my emotional response to the “feel” of images, and whether the tactile can be convincingly faked. 

    I invite the viewer to sit with that discomfort, to sense what’s missing or manipulated.

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  • WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO        ALMOST BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE?