A discussion about one of my collages raised a question worth answering: how do I feel about other people using my art?
You see, this isn't an AI generated piece. It's a conventional collage. There's also a 90% chance of there being a video of me making it.
If you look at the details at full resolution, there are compositing layers and texturing that you simply can't do in AI.
Amazing how these people who have finely tuned eyes for detecting AI can't tell, right?
So let me say it clearly.
If you want to use my art, be it conventional or AI. If there's something that I have done that speaks to you, or starts a conversation in your head. I want you to steal it. I want you to consume it. I want it to infect your consciousness and thoughts.
Allowing it to do so is the most significant honor you could ever give me as an artist. And I am always gratified when my work has done this.
What's more, is that if you want to cynically repackage my work and sell it as your own... by all means. I don't care, and would not be angry if you did that.
I would rather embrace love and open-mindedness than hate and conformity.
Dada is life.
