make-believe and true were exactly the same thing.

I was drawn to Peter Pan because of its celebration of non-conformity, self-discovery and freedom from society norms. Recently I realized that a core theme of nearly all of my art is a focus on disenfranchised and societally rejected people. I kept repeating the specific themes over and over, and it finally dawned that the reason why is that they all share that common thread: Non-gender-conforming, racial minorities, overweight people, among others. This collection was created solely using AI and it embraces the beautiful elements of an imperfect AI that will only be available to us for a short time period during this AI awakening. Soon these imperfections will be cherished and be among the most desired artifacts in the art world. This collection involved hundreds of hours of carefully blending various images using Dall-E outpainting. I estimate that between 5,000 and 10,000 unique prompts and generations were used to complete this series. 1 of 1