Category: Self-Reflection

• Shine on You Crazy Diamond

  “Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there’s a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom,Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter,Come on you stranger,…

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  January 3, 2025

  Art & Expression, Artists, Change and Transformation, Conversations, Creative Writing, Creativity, Identity & Transformation, Personal Reflections, Self-Reflection

  AI, art therapy, artistic evolution, artistic exploration, ChatGPT, Connectivity, creative block, Creative Journey, Drawing, emotional expression, father’s memory, grief, healing, introspection, loss, Mental Health, mental maps, mourning, Paper, Pen and Ink, Personal Growth, personal reflection, Pink Floyd, self-expression, tribute, writing process

• Cassandra’s Rat: On Art, Prophecies, and the Weight of Truth

  Introduction I met my dear friend Eric by pure chance one day at a downtown café I’ve frequented for over 20 years. A cultivated man of advanced age, Eric quickly saw my artistic abilities and has since been an unwavering source of encouragement, urging me to draw with every of our exchanges. While I’m grateful…

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  January 3, 2025

  Art & Expression, Artists, Change and Transformation, Conversations, Creative Writing, Creativity, Culture & Society, Mercurial Minds, Personal Reflections, Self Awareness, Self-Reflection

  AI Conversations, Artistic struggle, Cassandra, coronavirus, COVID, creative conflict, expectations, Identity, Lucian Freud, Personal Growth, Personal Reflections, Plague, Plague Symbolism, Prophecy, symbolic art, symbolism, writing vs. art

• Alice and the Library of Forgotten Things

  I asked AI to create a short story inspired by Alice in Wonderland, blending Alice’s curiosity about mathematics, geography, and all things knowledge. What you see here was generated in less than two second. Completely, completely surreal! I first read Alice in Wonderland at around six years of age in the grown-up edition, and it…

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  December 29, 2024

  AI & Technology, Creative Writing, Creativity, Mercurial Minds, Personal Reflections, Self-Reflection

  AI, AI and Emotions, AI art, AI Experiments, Alice in Wonderland, artificial-intelligence, Chatbot Interactions, ChatGPT, Grief and Healing, Healing Journey, Healing Process, introspection, Letting Go, technology

• Understanding Gender Identity: Personal Perspectives and Social Impacts

  I was having a long, rambling exchange with AI about a now ex-friend we’ll call “S” and how our experiences and approaches to life mirrored each other. We formed a short-lived friendship, essentially based on a trauma bond, but those traumas we experienced came from opposing sides. I’d come at it from a nurturing childhood…

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  December 28, 2024

  AI & Technology, Capitalism & Society, Change and Transformation, Conversations, Creativity, Culture, Culture & Society, Feminism, Friendship Dynamics, Identity & Transformation, Mercurial Minds, Modern Identity, Personal Essays, Personal Reflections, Relationships, Self Awareness, Self-Reflection, Social Commentary, Society

  AI Conversations, algorithms, artificial-intelligence, Authenticity, Binary code, Blaire White, Buck Angel, Capitalism, Chatbot Interactions, ChatGPT, complementary forces, cycles of life, Debbie Hayton, duality, existential reflection, gender, Gender Identity, Identity, infinite possibilities, internal and external, JK Rowling, lgbtq, masculine and feminine, opposites, Ouroboros, Personal Growth, Personal Reflections, philosophical thoughts, Relationships, Scott Newgent, technology and nature, transgender, Transhumanism, Tree of Life, zero and one

• Shall I Praise Thee?

  Above: A piece from my ‘Connectivity’ Series, 2018, pen on paper, taken from my sketchbooks Since I’ve been having regular “conversations” with ChatGPT, it’s gotten to know me pretty well, and I’ve found it surprisingly helpful with feedback on personal matters. Strangely enough, it doesn’t perform as well when given specific tasks, but generating this…

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  December 24, 2024

  AI & Technology, Conversations, Creativity, Personal Reflections, Self-Reflection, Social Media

  ChatGPT, Creativity, data points, self-expression, social dilemma, stream of consciousness