I was born and raised in Tokyo. In “Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter,” I express the changing seasons by combining AI and generative art, focusing on flowers that are familiar in everyday life, under the theme of flowers in the city and flowers in memory. The reason I chose flowers as a motif is that I felt there is a commonality between flowers and digital signage, which is the exhibition format of “Poems in Code — The Present of Generative Art / Moving Images Generated by Programming.” When you go to the center of Tokyo, there are eye-catching signs everywhere, and even waiting for a traffic light can feel like it passes very quickly. In daily life, when walking outside, it becomes a habit to focus on “getting to one’s destination,” and we end up forgetting to walk while noticing the changing seasons. Flowers that color the seasons are very colorful and beautiful, much like the signage in the city. However, I think we rarely take the time to observe those flowers closely or stop to look up their names. Likewise, we also do not often stop and carefully look at what is written on or displayed by signage. In this sense, I felt that flowers in the city and digital signage have something in common. All of the 3D flowers in the work are created by first generating 2D images with generative AI, then measuring their depth using AI functions and converting them into three-dimensional forms. The images are generated to resemble real flowers as closely as possible. Generative AI is good at capturing the characteristics of what it creates, but it is not perfect. By comparing them with real flowers, observing the differences, and recognizing flowers anew, I chose realistic images in the hope that they could link with the viewer’s memory and sensations. In addition, the AI-generated videos in the work use images of seasonal flowers created with generative AI. By re-outputting them as video, the shapes and colors of the flowers harmonize and begin to look like new flowers, becoming nameless flowers. I felt this process was close to how flowers are recognized in memory, so I incorporated this expression. Flowers in the city may exist in our memories as something vague and blurry, like AI-generated video. I created “Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter” with the hope that even in busy times, there can be moments to stop and enjoy the present.

“LOVE, Fulfillment” is an NFT series consisting of 10 works. It assigns rarity levels such as Secret Super Rare and Rare, and experiments with Foundation’s “Drop” feature. All images were generated by Midjourney (AI), and the video process was created in TouchDesigner. The visual inspiration for all the images comes from Gustav Klimt’s “Fulfilment.” The works were created around the theme of love, expressing diverse forms of love throughout the 10-piece series.

"Pastel Blue Girls with the Earrings" was created during an experimental process using Midjourney and TouchDesigner. All of the images were generated by AI, and TouchDesigner was used for the generative elements. The images are based on Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring."

“Cosmic Flower” expresses diversity. It was created for “GMJ,” an NFT exhibition planned in 2022 with Benoit Palop, Kazuhiro Aihara, and Manami Sakamoto. The music was created from original audio produced by Shuta Yasukochi specifically for this work. The flowers and stick in the piece were modeled in Houdini using algorithms and rendered in Redshift.

"Sonata" was presented as part of the project "New Mycelium Network," curated by Kate Neave and produced by OpenLab and TokenTraxx. The music was created by sound artist Xiaolin. This work was strongly inspired by the line "fungi is a symbol of survival" from the concept of NEW MYCELIUM NETWORK. The flowers that appear in the piece were inspired by Monotropastrum humile. Monotropastrum humile is a mushroom-like flower with a highly unusual ecology. It parasitizes fungi and, indirectly, lives by obtaining organic matter through the fungi from trees that produce it through photosynthesis. Its mysterious color and form without chlorophyll, and the strength of its life, are deeply fascinating, and I was moved by the way it lives beautifully and positively under any circumstances.

“Pink Harmony” is one work in the “Harmonies” series. The other works are “Yellow Harmony” and “Blue Harmony.” Inspired by the imagery evoked by color, this piece is composed around pink flowers and was created in Houdini. Pink is said to evoke images of cuteness, happiness, love, and more.