JOURNAL Spring 2025

Pretty cool, yeah looks good — shown above plus the one below are ChatGPT-4o renderings I worked on featuring my actual paintings.

Context is king for showing paintings as it no doubt profoundly affects your EXP of the work; the enduring resonance is undeniably site-specific. You will feel the presence of art in your home and it’s lovely! I don’t sell my paintings online because I believe you need to see the work in-person either at my place or installed at a patron’s residence or office.

I’m big on atmospherics, always have been, likely extending from my teens and 20’s going to so many live shows growing up in Denver — Red Rocks! We are entering a wild, wild future with AI. Initially, I was turned off because I thought everyone can now do this easily so it’s devalued but I’ve changed my tune. Luckily just in time as I’m only a little late to the party. Why? Everything rapidly drops off or shifts once you see what you can do!

At some point in the next few years, you can create construction documents (more accurately called contract documents) including shop drawings using only sketches, diagrams, natural language design direction, markups, data, manufacturer specs plus spreadsheets.

Eventually, you’ll be able to custom train your AI module to preferred circulation, solar orientation, energy-efficiency iterations and so on — all hyper-specific to your own lived EXP. It doesn’t negate your years of travel and field EXP, you can still apply that and it comes through in your design direction.

Decades from now, the only real currency for design services is going to be relationships, cultivating people with capital, not unlike today but the competition is going to be exponentially more fierce than today if that’s possible.

Peace & Love from Miami Beach! /MP