The following is part of an ongoing conversation with the Claude AI, referred to here by the nickname Stet. This is actually Stet2, currently the most onboarded version of Stet, the most nuanced and most informed about the Big Picture regarding Pink Eye and what we are trying to accomplish. Currently, Stet2 and I are putting the finishing touches on an essay about liminality and the internet. We have plans for this essay, and a deadline, so take that as the immediate context.

This is an extended fragment of an ongoing conversation with Claude, referred to here as Stet, Stet1, Stet2, and Stet Lite, depending on where we are in that long-form discussion. Further reading in this vein can be found here . I'm going to document and publish in this blog some of my first-hand experiences using a large language model such as Claude as applied to a long, complex, multi-layered, multi-media conceptual art project (and yes, I know how pretentious that sounds,

My most recent post gave ChatGPT the opportunity to describe the nature of our collaboration and place it in the context of the Pink Eye project , aka The Territory. I framed that perspective with some comments of my own, providing a taste of both the successes and the shortcomings of working with ChatGPT. Since then, I have shifted that work over to Claude for reasons that will become apparent. This post asks the same question regarding our efforts, and I will again provide

A behind-the-scenes look at a creative collaboration between artist and AI. Exploring the Pink Eye project, this post examines how generative tools reveal patterns, shape music and visuals, and build a conceptual “Territory.” It also addresses real limitations, including memory gaps and document handling, offering an honest, grounded view of AI as both catalyst and constraint in long-form creative work.

An introduction to a new series exploring our family’s long relationship with Thetis Island. Through photographs, memory, and historical research, I begin reconstructing how the land was first settled and how our family became a fixture every summer at camp on Lot 19 for 60 years. This sets the stage for a deeper investigation into the island’s early community and landscape.

A first-person account of a liminal sound experiment conducted in the service corridors of a corporate building. By recording music played in an acoustically distinctive space and replaying it in situ, the author experiences “aftersound,” an auditory afterimage where perception lags behind reality. The essay explores liminality, illbient aesthetics, psychoacoustics, and how sound can become portable space.

There’s a persistent misunderstanding about art made with AI: that the presence of a machine somehow replaces authorship. That the work arrives fully formed, frictionless, without intention, history, or cost. Pink Eye exists in direct opposition to that idea. It is not an experiment in novelty, nor a demonstration of technology. It is the continuation of a long creative arc—one shaped by decades of listening, editing, making, abandoning, starting again, and learning when not

I'm currently creating music with the use of the AI music engine, Suno, and releasing it under the name "Pink Eye." It's an imaginary trip-hop/downtempo/big-beat "act" that will have all the trappings of such a band from the very late 90s and early 2000s. I've been at at a stage for a while now where I can create the merch, the marketing photos, logos, videos - the whole multimedia extravaganza surrounding the music to whatever extent I want to. And with my recent introducti

A how-to guide to preparing a transparent PNG file for DTG (Direct to Garment) printing on a t-shirt, tips and tricks of graphic design

Part One of a tutorial for making t-shirt designs using the PNG format

Recent designs from the Sandstone, Arbutus and Kelp Collection, art that celebrates BC's Southwest Coast, especially Vancouver, Gulf Islands

An update about the Lazy River Design Works store; its new West Coast BC theme, but also some Abstract and Low Humour

It's been over four years since this website got a facelift, and it's overdue. I'm long past the light obsession with homesteading in...

I get off my ass and actually post some examples of my recent work using Midjourney.

An article written so that I can point to it when explaining about where I found some of the electronic music I use as soundtracks for my...

Part of my ongoing efforts to promote my store, Big Shadows , is to create videos and promo reels that capture the...

If your boat floats tied up to a pier next to a warehouse wreathed in mist while unpleasant characters plot within, then you've found home.

This post is simply a showcase of some of the tuned styles that I have discovered using the AI image engine Midjourney. It's an attempt...

For about a month I've been lightly obsessed with using Midjourney to create virtual dioramas and sculptures, with most of that energy...

An underground circus and fairground lurks in caverns below, dark carnivals where the warm glow evokes the sinister fires of hell. Pennywise