The Garden of Musubi

Fumi Imamura has such a simple but beautiful style of representing flowers. 

The Garden of Musubi—a second solo exhibition curated by Julia Tarasyuk. Rich with symbolism and spiritual resonance, the exhibition explores musubu—to tie, bind, connect—as a living principle of transformation through the medium of collage and watercolour works on paper. 

From Gardenista: Artist Fumi Imamura’s collages look like bouquets from a beguiling, yet-to-be-discovered planet. She herself is rather otherworldly. Instead of growing her flowers from seed, Imamura conjures them entirely on paper that she meticulously paints, cuts out, and applies, roots and all, in enchanting arrangements. 

Based in Aichi, in central Japan—Imamura received her MFA from Kanazawa College of Art in 2008—she often works on the floor with her cat at her side and has described her art as capturing “the wordless poetry” of plants.

 

 

"Is it live, or is it Memorex?"

Is it real or is it ai? I run across so many videos presenting themselves as real that are ai. I am so sick of ai slop. And art created with ai, is it really art? I ran across these cool images from Hanna Inaiah and now I think they are mostly ai.

I know I used photoshop manipulate images and photos so I guess I could take responsibility for creating something similar. But computer generated art just feels like cheating to me. 

 

The poetic images she creates with AI are a starting point — visual moods that evolve into prints, pieces, collections or digital products. She is also known for her best-selling Procreate brushes, used by artists around the world, and for her presence as a digital influencer, where she shares insights on creativity, AI and visual storytelling.

Each command prompt or line drawn on the screen carries her journey as a designer, embroiderer and AI explorer. Through this hybrid lens, Hanna Inaiah continues to shape a unique visual language, where intuition meets technology. 

I think ai generated women disturb me more than anything because they are always flawless, thin, beautiful .... never feeling quite real. Just like what we want the influencers on instagram or tik tok to be, completely unreal. It feels like a very scary, sad future we are heading into. I feel sorry for my kids and grand kids who will be impacted by this bullshit.