Context
The Wrapped Wonders series (January 2023–September 2024) bridges photography, digital painting, and AI-generated imagery. Using a Stable Diffusion-trained AI model fed with my personal archive of street-found objects, I created these works through ControlNET drawings, altered photo renderings, and text-to-image prompts.
Rather than pursuing photorealism, Wrapped Wonders embraces abstraction, blending melted pixels and layered textures to evoke the expressive qualities of painting. These images reject precise representation, exploring ambiguity and transformation while inviting viewers to interpret their shifting, hybrid forms.
Just as 19th-century hand-colored daguerreotypes blurred the line between photography and painting, AI models today challenge perceptions of reality, making it harder to distinguish the real from the artificial. However, unlike the photorealistic aspirations of many AI models, this series seeks to reimagine photographic language through abstraction, suggesting new visual possibilities.
Series
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- ↑ #00158
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- ↑ #00054
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- ↑ #00048
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- ↑ #00106
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- ↑ #00142
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- ↑ #00060
Exhibitions
Art Prolongs Life – Prescriptions from the HUS Art Collection, 16.11.2024 – 5.1.2025, Kunsthalle Helsinki
Art Center Purnu, Purnu FI (2024)
OTOS 2-5 November 2023, Cable Factory (Helsinki)
Galleria Heino 2.9.2023 – 24.9.2023
Photos by Pertti Kärki / Galleria Heino
Notes
More images to come.
