#speculativeart

Monochrome Machine Symphony

My art is painterly yet layered with digital complexity. I work at the intersection of tradition and technology, blending the textures and atmosphere of oil painting with the density, rhythm, and chaos of modern digital detail. My works often look one way from a distance, like a map, a figure, or a landscape, but up close they unfold into countless fragments, stories, and hidden elements. The aim is to hold both intimacy and vastness in a single frame.

This piece was created by combining generative methods with hand-painting. I use algorithms to spark forms, rhythms, or structures, much like scaffolding, and then layer painterly textures and human intent over them. The process is iterative, part system, part instinct, part correction, part chaos. I build until the image feels both overwhelming in detail and alive in its own narrative. The result is a hybrid, not purely digital, not purely painterly, but a dialogue between computer logic and human imagination.

Slowly chipping away at the development of my solar system for my spec bio project. Astronomy is actually kinda interesting when there’s not math involved lol, having fun with it. Cupid is a dwarf planet but I’m qualifying it as an actual planet because it’s more fun that way, plus it’s basically just a mini mars. Cupid is called Cupid because it’s pink and red and it was the first name I thought of for any of the planets so I’m keeping it despite the Hindi naming conventions of the Blue Flumen.

You might be wondering why it’s named the Blue Flumen system, it’s named because of its blue hue because it is moving towards earth and the wavelengths of light are being squished, making them blue, this effect is the blueshift or the Doppler Effect . ‘Flumen’ means river in Latin, its river because of the way its angled in from the point of view of earth. if you look at the Blue Flumen from earth it looks like a blue line basically lol.

Bad drawing, but this is basically what it would look like from earth

I also spent like an hour coming up with the planets orbits in a little simulator, have a look!

There’s a picture up there with all the planets names but if you want some more clearer one:

1. Big yellow (sun): Surya

2. Red: Tapati

3. Orange: Shani

4. Little yellow: Bhadra

5. Green: Cupid

6. Blue: Indra

7. Purple: Yama

8: Pink: Manu

The colors of them in the simulation don’t reflect their actual colors or appearance, the colors are only there so you can see them better as they orbit. :P

Bhadra is most definitely going to be the main focus of the spec bio project because it’s earth sized and in the habitable zone and I also started developing it before I made the Blue Flumen (scroll down on my page a little to see some flora!!)

New Plot Bunny Genres—Purple Prose, Cyberpunk, and Smut

Whether your writing is full of flowery language, neon and computer code, or steam and spice, here’s three new genres of Plot Bunny available at Painting Dragon Feathers—Purple Prose, Cyberpunk, and Smut. The High Fantasy Plot Bunnies have also gotten an updated color scheme. 

ifuseekamy (b. 1999) is a transdisciplinary artist enchanted by that which lies below; looking to the earth for soily solutions. The foundations of their practice begin with radical empathy, as they are unafraid to question, poke and prod limiting beliefs inherited by various institutional structures.

Enamored with Speculative Feminisms and Queer Theory, amy takes a quasi- anthropological stance to making, drawing connections between interrelated concepts typically revolving around ecologies, science fiction, symbols and interdependence. There are recurrent explorations of agency within amy’s practice alongside a firm rejection of anthropocentrism. Roping in more-than-human subjectivities, amy’s work asks us to constantly reevaluate our perspectives in order to see beyond and outside of ourselves and the rigid structures we inhabit.

Teetering the line between playfulness and seriousness, there’s an inherent fluidity to amy’s practice as their artwork takes many forms such as prose & poetry, moving image, installations, performance and audio. They are willing to use whatever process the work needs, letting it develop and mould itself naturally. Similarly with materials, there’s a temporal nature to amy’s artworks and an emphasis on the ability for work to be constructed, reconstructed, remixed and reused.