I code and I paint. Conversations with Claude, changing my AI piece "Elapsed Turbulence" based on the painting "7,917 Hours Ago" into something different as a digital half-life.
I code and I paint. This documents a piece I made in collaboration with Claude — a generative algorithm built from two oil paintings and the relationship between them. The first painting is finished. The Longest Way to the End is about the moment a relationship ends — not the slow unraveling, but the reality of it in a world that is increasingly post-reality. And post-truth. Where even am I? Only my internal state is real, and when that is upended I feel like I match the world. On fire, and not what I pictured when I was a kid at ALL.
"I Remember" just closed at the Forsberg Gallery at the Rose Center for the Arts at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington, and I'm still thinking about what it means to hang work in a place like that — a public college gallery, free and open to the community, with twenty-foot walls.
Hey Kiddo opened at Red Brick Center for the Arts in Aspen on August 14th and ran through October 17th — five women artists in the main gallery whose work, collectively, kept circling the same territory: what we carry forward, what we choose to remember, what the imagination does with a world that keeps shrinking.
I am not the only artist that dreads writing an artist statement. How important is process to what I write and submit? Should I mention AI at all? People are hating on it, and with reason. Or do I even want to change what I have? (Hint: not really. But I gotta.) What's the most important thing I can say about my work — and will it resonate with anyone?
Once When I Was You Ann Morgan’s exhibition Once When I Was You — the final iteration of a series begun around her 50th birthday in early 2023 — brings together large-scale oil paintings that merge traditional landscape conventions with her background in technology. Presented at The Art Base in Basalt, Colorado, the show features work that draws on Morgan’s dual identity as painter and
Articles in The Aspen Times, The Aspen Daily, Colorado Public Radio about the show Once When I Was You, Part Three, showing at The Art Base.
In my artist statement I’ve struggled with how to present my process or even if it matters. Does it? I predominately make oil paintings. Painting is so far removed from A.I. and such a totally human thing to do, it’s unrelated. Still, I’m far from the only artist who is using and referencing digital tools or my digital life to create art and it’s worth mentioning as a relevant aspect of my work.
A few weeks ago, or a few months ago — who knows, I have no sense of time since the pandemic...
WritingAnn Morgan2026-05-06T16:48:15+00:00
