yin yang
Yin Yang art @stemandstoneart
“Yin Yang” is part of a series of Ecological Art prints we published in 2025. It was created with AI. The butterfly species of Zebra Swallow Tail, Chrysina Aurigans, Chyrisna Limbata and Mimic Swallowtail were used. Ecological surrealism is so lovely because it adds a sense of wonder & illumination to the common. It lights from within. In particular when dealing with philosophical questions on on duality, yin/yang or universality, ecological surrealism is a subject that most viewers can engage with easily as it represents our common treasures, a gold scarab beetle, the way light makes a Morpho butterfly wing iridescent.
Like traditional art, the series has themes (ecological surrealism, duality, Yin Yang). It is a large series of botanical subjects similar enough to be combined and mixed as paneled art sets. Each image was created individually. I specified my language to feed into the model as technically “clean” as possible. I did not use the names of any other artists’ work. I only referenced technical theories in art or scientific classifications. It was edited with short cues (simplify, add iridescence, less gold etc), The works were composed and edited to be in alignment with subject matter, form, color and essence but also unique enough in composition to have tension between them. The magic things of the earth like scarab beetles and iridescent butterfly wings. Illuminating the colors and forms of magic things in the world is an art series I would have held in my mind and never have undertaken without AI. It was a medium both literally and figuratively.
I don’t know if its Art and nobody else does either. But I do know this …whatever it Is, it’s me. In fact, the first words my 8 year old daughter said to me when she saw the website was, “It’s so You.” There were three layers were previously there had only been two. So perhaps we are thinking of AI Art all wrong. It is its own thing, a new entity in the natural order of things. It’s like a newborn baby sitting in our living room that will very quickly grow up to be smarter than us. And for now, we get to talk to it and co-create with it.
As it is integrated into our world and screens it will be more and more impossible to know the difference. Our only barometer will be, as it always been, how does it make you feel and what does it make you think? Can you feel what is special or thought provoking or human intertwined within the non- human? Can we see the humanity peeking through, crystalized somehow in the rendering of the work? And the answer to that will remain open to interpretation, and a question of audience and their attention. So back to the question. Is is Art? I think the answer will be… it doesn’t matter, and it’s all relative. It will be visually everywhere and it isn’t going to matter what you call it.
