Diego Rigales

These hands contain the power to create or destroy. This same duality of energy exists in all of us. I believe in a world where people trust each other. I believe in the communal - an idea that we share something as a species. The data (artwork) seen here exists within its contextual intention in the current time/space, yes, but will not make complete sense until the work is seen as a whole.

The state of the world has directed me to contemplate and thus provide data to the future of our species as we enter a new phase of co-existing with Artificial Intelligence. I draw inspiration from the duality of respecting the past and celebrating the future. Isn’t everything in the universe indeed…circular? I hope to document this time by utilizing traditional themes and techniques in classical art, paired with muralist-like, diagrammatic storytelling.

 Through my artistic practice I research and meditate on such ideologies in coexistence between these two species (humanity and “AI"). We are all witnessing a pivotal moment in history. I choose painting and sculpture as my pen and sword - analog tools of documentation and thus a form of protest in a world where fabricated reality in seconds will only become more and more…real.