This work is part of my series “New beginnings, old endings, secrets secreting" where I use the Playform GAN to explore alternative methods of art creation and digital outsourcing. I use my past work "Color, Balance", as a data set to train the GAN in my paintings’ style. I then feed the network specific portraits I find online. The result of this process provides the base for new paintings I further alter in Photoshop. Computer scientists often refer to neural network images as ‘dreams’ due to their soft surreal-like quality. Considered a stepping stone in the search for artificial intelligence, hopes and fears surrounding these technologies attach themselves to ideas larger than any indivi...