FRAMED LIMITED EDITION GICLÉE PRINTS
JEAN-PAUL STRUMMER
"Hell is other people"
No Exit - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
"Without people you're nothing"
The Future is Unwritten - JOE STRUMMER
PEOPLE vs PEOPLE
JEAN-PAUL STRUMMER
"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."
Soren Kierkegaard
'Jean-Paul Strummer' is a series of digital conceptual artworks exploring 'the people paradox'.
BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
NO EXIT...TO THE WESTWAY
"You want a hermitage in Times Square, with a large sign over it saying ‘Hermit."
Thomas Merton
Jean-Paul Strummer is part of collective body of work called 'THE SIGNIFICANCE PARADE' - an examination of anomaly and the need for 'attention' within the context of the certainty of individual oblivion.
HE WHO F*CKS NUNS...
SELLOUT ?
Prints of the JEAN-PAUL STRUMMER series are not available for collection / purchase.
The reason for this is that the the main merged Sartre / Strummer image used in the prints was generated with AI back in 2022 when I was first experimenting with the technology.
The use of AI is a complex and contentious issue. For me - if you check out some of my talks and writing from 2022 it's all there - it's clear that I see it as a tool that can be used to make stuff with and what really matters is the intent behind the creative act. Pop-Art collage is just as derivative and literally 'cut & paste', while Duchamp's Fountain owes its form to the factory designer. Other arguments about technological displacement are well trodden.
My choice however is a personal one. I choose to source and or create everything for myself when trying to communicate a thought process in a sensory aesthetic form. (That's why i call it 'organic' digital art).
Equally, until the copyright issues are somehow revolved to the same degree as sampling (Pop-Art again anyone?) then as much as I am a 'ReMake / ReModel' disciple - I don't want to use someone's work without acknowledgement / permission / compensation.