As I step into Week 3 of my Burn, Remint, Repeat project, I’m shifting into a new phase of my artistic journey where there is a noticeable evolution in my style and technique. This week’s Remint #3 is a piece from 2023 that touches on longing and seeking connection through an exploration of AI sentience and the ways in which technology and emotion can intertwine. In previous pieces, including last week’s Remint #2, I had begun exploring human emotions and experiences through the lens of androids. With this piece, I continued that approach but with more courage to dig deeper—not only imparting my own emotions onto an android for exploration, but also imagining the emotions that could potentially be experienced by an emotionally awakened, sentient AI. As we move further along in exploring my artistic journey through this reintroduction project, I think this progression in how I engage with the topic of AI eventually leads to my present-day artistic practice and vision.
This piece has been featured in several exhibitions in Milwaukee, Chicago, Miami, and New York City.
I was actually planning to remint a different artwork this week. However, after thinking about it deeply, I decided that specific artwork doesn’t fit into the narrative of my artistic reintroduction. My goal is to only remint artworks that I feel provide context and mark major shifts in my journey as an artist. Sometimes we have to let go of things that no longer move our story forward, even if they hold a meaningful place in a past portion of the journey. So, that artwork is being tucked into my archives with the other burned artworks and never-minted pieces. This means there will be one less artwork being reintroduced during this project, but we still have two more remints coming this week and next week, followed by a drop of a piece many of you have seen but has never been minted.
Remint #3 will drop this Friday on OBJKT, with 20 limited editions available. (In the coming months, physical prints will also be available.)
As usual, I will announce the remint on Friday here along with the title, artwork reveal, and further explanation about the piece, its symbolism, and my thoughts on how this marked a significant shift in my journey as an artist. If you’re just tuning in and trying to figure out exactly what I’m doing, please read or listen to my initial article (linked below) explaining my 'why' and giving you more context and background.
Burn, Remint, Repeat: Let Me Reintroduce Myself
As the autumn vibes begin to rise and the leaves prepare to fall, I find myself emerging from a summer of silence and introspection with a match in hand. There’s a season for everything, and this season is a time to burn things down to make room for new growth. This is the part where I reintroduce myself and my artwork as I step boldly into my authentic…
I hope this new week is gentle on you. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with some of my classes, so I’m manifesting a gentle week for myself as well.
Stay tuned for my remint drop announcement on Friday, and thank you for being part of this journey.
- SJ