In this painting, I aimed to visualize the intricate, tense dance of generative adversarial networks, where one neural network creates, the other critiques, and together they generate something new, sometimes uncanny, sometimes beautiful, often both. The forms move between control and chaos: perfect loops and pixelated grids sit alongside chunky, improvised shapes that feel almost biological. That friction between the synthetic and the organic is where the energy of the painting lives.
The dotted lines and atomic motifs nod to diagrams and data structures, but also to earlier artists who tried to make sense of invisible systems, think Hilma af Klint’s spiritual geometries or the data-poetics of Terry Winters. There’s also something of Dubuffet in the textures, a resistance to a smooth surface, a refusal to let the painting become too machine-like.
The title “Chill Out” is a bit of a provocation. It’s something we say to each other, and maybe now something we need to say to our technologies, too. In a world where AI is accelerating faster than our ability to understand it, this piece asks whether we can slow down, be playful, and be critical. I wanted to make a painting that feels like both a simulation and a rebellion against it.
24 x 30 inches | Acrylic on wood panel
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 