If you'd told me I'd end up having some of my most interesting art conversations with a chatbot, I'd have laughed you out of the room. But here we are. This is where those conversations live — essays on photography, AI, and the gaps in the record—some written solo, some hashed out with Claude or ChatGPT, until one of us said something worth keeping.
Teaching ChatGPT the Shape of Your Voice
A reusable AI skill is not magic. It is a way of teaching the machine what not to erase: your voice, your cadence, your point of view, and the lived experience underneath the sentences. This essay uses the creation of a “Diana voice” skill as an example of how artists and writers can use AI without letting it flatten them.
Being There: Gemini and the Historical Record Problem
You do not have to disappear for part of your history to vanish. Sometimes all it takes is a search engine, an incomplete record, and nobody who knows what is missing.
Going to the Bar After Work
The machines provided information. The real insight came from figuring out what to do with it.
I criticized Claude. Claude criticized my critique. The conversation became more interesting than the original experiment.
My Dinner with Claude
Claude located information about a handful of projects and constructed an overarching interpretation of my practice. The interpretation was not incorrect. It was simply built upon a limited sample.
A human curator who researched only four projects before writing about an artist’s career would rightly be criticized for incomplete scholarship. Yet AI systems are often judged by the quality of their conclusions rather than the rigor of their research.
The World Refused to Cooperate: How Disillusionment Shaped My Decades-Long Body of Work
Photography and a lens have remained central to my practice because they occupy the same territory. We continue to treat photographs as evidence even though we know they are interpretations. We trust them while understanding how easily they can mislead us. The medium exists in the uneasy space between certainty and uncertainty, between truth and fiction.
Add AI-generated, photographically styled imagery to the mix, and the relationship between photography, evidence, and belief becomes even more complicated.
Five AI Systems, One Artist, and the Problem of Interpretation
"They could identify the themes. They could not identify what connected them. The absence of information is often mistaken for the absence of significance."
The Most Surprising Conversations About Art I’ve Had This Year
If you had told me a year ago that some of the most interesting “conversations” I would have in 2026 would be with AI, I would have rolled on the floor laughing. I would have thought you were “off your rocker.” But that is exactly what happened.