I had a brief but passionate affair with early AI imagery, back when it was really just a pure, raw line of text prompt and nothing else. These early stages were mainly about wrestling with the machine for hours on end to get the desired results. But in a way it was like toiling away at a canvas or chopping at a block of wood, so I didn't mind. Those days are long gone, but maybe I'll upload a couple of examples sometime. Or ask AI to do it for me?

It did create some local buzz at the time, made the front page and so forth.

I largely owe this inspiration to Boris Eldagsen, whose photographic exploits I had been loosely following even before the AI days. So when he came up with his first experiments, I was intrigued and eventually tried it myself.

In the picture below we are standing next to a large print of his iconic work "The Electrician". He's pointing at me like I'm The Man, but of course he was The Man all along.