HOW AND WHY

As a child I grew up in Sweden and in Japan. Both countries iconography and art has influenced me alot in my own art, my approach to things and my thinking.

Today I mainly have two different ways of creating my art. One is Digital painting with a pen or my finger, and the other one is with AI.

To create my digital paintings I use either my old acrylic paintings or my old AI paintings as a starting point. I then manipulated and paint on them on my phone, that is why the direction often goes from upper right to down left - my finger moves that way. The painting act is very intuitive and responsive, sometimes very quick. I then send them to the computer to fix details, colors, etc, maybe add more details. This it feels like an updated version of expressionism painting for me.

In my AI practice i use older versions of Stable Diffusion as I try to find texture and compositions and figures that are kind of wrong, the mistakes AI makes, and try enhance them. I beleive a machine becomes more human if you keep the mistakes. I often begin with a sketch made in Procreate or Photoshop. I run it through AI and paint on the output. I run it again. This ping pong game continues until I find a composition and texture I like. One single artwork can have over 200 outputs.