Yokai Adventures
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Artist statement
Yokai Adventures
I love the pictures I've seen of Japanese yokai, or spirit beings--sometimes demonic, sometimes just mischievous. Like many anime artists, I've created some yokai adventures of my own, using MidJourney and other AI tools. I especially like the traditional belief that if ordinary household objects survive long enough (100 years, they say), they take on a life of their own and become yokai of sorts. My leading picture below experiments with that idea, setting it in a classically boring 1950s living room. I also love the bake nekos, or cat yokai, since I'm a big cat fan.
About the artist
I was always attracted to art, but I thought I couldn't be an artist because I can't draw well. I became a writer instead. At age 50 I discovered that what I WAS good at was combining images to make new and different ones: in other words, collage. At first I did "pasteup" collages, which I still enjoy, but around 2000 I taught myself how to use Photoshop and moved into the digital world. Last year--the year of my 80th birthday!--I began using AI art programs heavily. I love them, especially Midjourney. I love to explore/create magical worlds of all kinds, including exoplanets and strange alien life forms.
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