Artwork title : INSTAR - IMAGO

INSTAR – IMAGO began with a simple drawing. Through digital 

and AI, the image gradually changes, accumulating lines, colour

and detail until a recognizable figure emerges. The transforamtion

continues, eventually breaking down into decay and distintegration.

My interest in this work lies in the notion of change as an ongoing

process, and in the possibilies of extending abstract art through

digitzation and AI. Digital tools and AI offer new ways to explore

the concerns of abstraction, allowing images to move beyond

their original forms and develop in unexpected directions.

Moving between abstraction and figuration, order and

disorder, formation and dissolution, the image undergoes

a succession of transformations. These changes refer not

only to the processes of growth and decay found in nature,

but also to our own shifting identities. Who we are is never

entirely fixed; our sense of self changes through experience,

circumstance, and the passage of time. Like the image

in the film, we are continually becoming something other than

what we were.

The title refers to stages in insect development, from instar,

a stage of growth, to imago, the mature form. In the film,

however, maturity is not a final destination. The emergence of a

recognizable form is temporary, and its eventual disintegration

returns us to the broader process of change itself.