This image is the second in a series exploring generative adversarial networks and how they relate to art making as a practice.
Breathing, pumping, desire producing machine, reaching, perpetually in search of other machines.
This image is generated from a gan trained on 27 thousand images of traditional tattoo designs, processed and curated by me. After taking random samples in latent space, select results are curated. This image transverses a subset of chosen points. The result is augmented with inception deep dream details.
