Freedom to Bloom

Living with unrealized potential can be a difficult burden to bear. Finding one's voice, medium and toolset to enable latent talent to be expressed through creation is a kind of liberation: the stifled flower that has been hindered from sharing its beauty is now free to bloom. ✧◦✧◦✧◦✧◦✧◦✧◦✧◦✧◦✧◦✧ This piece is a 1/1 edition created by Maneki Neko for the "AI Is Freedom" exhibition at the Mecenate Fine Art Museum in Rome, Italy from September 23rd - 29th, 2022. It began as a text-to-image collaboration with an AI called Stable Diffusion to synthesize images for a particular vision. After many variations were created, the best were curated and collaged in Photoshop. The piece was finished w...View all