<!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #1

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<!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #1, 2024, Ink, Paper, 68"x38", $3,000.00 

 <!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #1, #2  mark a pivotal expansion in the artist’s inquiry into divinity, emotion, and artificial logic. Rendered in the format of traditional religious icons, the diptych confronts the void left when spiritual symbolism is stripped of its metaphysical authority and repopulated with algorithmic reasoning.

 <!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #1 is a meditation on artificial intelligence, digital consciousness, and the mechanization of human emotion. At its core, the piece reimagines a classical religious figure, draped in blue, their hands open in a gesture of offering or surrender. Yet, instead of divine wisdom, their presence is consumed by an outpouring of emoticons—symbols of contemporary digital communication—cascading downwards, shifting between joy, sadness, and absurdity. These simplified digital faces, detached from genuine human expression, highlight the commodification of emotion in the digital age, where algorithms dictate reactions and 

responses.

The background is layered with fragmented AI-generated text, repeating the phrase: "My responses are generated based on patterns and information present in the data I've been trained on, up until my last update in January 2022." This statement, sterile and robotic, disrupts the spiritual imagery, underscoring the limitations of artificial intelligence and the absence of true wisdom or creativity beyond pre-existing datasets. The halo, cracked and peeling, suggests a divinity rendered obsolete by data-driven systems, raising existential questions about knowledge, trust, and the authenticity of intelligence.

Through a fusion of religious iconography, digital culture, and AI-driven language, artist's  <!--the_empty_heanded_gods--> #1 challenges viewers to reflect on the nature of intelligence, emotion, and belief in an era increasingly dominated by artificial constructs. It is a powerful commentary on the intersection of technology and humanity, where faith in algorithms may be replacing faith in the intangible.

<!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #2, 2024, Ink, Paper, 68"x38", $3,000.00

 <!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #1, #2  mark a pivotal expansion in the artist’s inquiry into divinity, emotion, and artificial logic. Rendered in the format of traditional religious icons, the diptych confronts the void left when spiritual symbolism is stripped of its metaphysical authority and repopulated with algorithmic reasoning.

<!--the_empty_handed_gods-> #2 is a meditation on artificial intelligence, digital consciousness, and the mechanization of human emotion. At its core, the piece reimagines a classical religious figure, draped in blue, their hands open in a gesture of offering or surrender. Yet, instead of divine wisdom, their presence is consumed by an outpouring of emoticons—symbols of contemporary digital communication—cascading downwards, shifting between joy, sadness, and absurdity. These simplified digital faces, detached from genuine human expression, highlight the commodification of emotion in the digital age, where algorithms dictate reactions and 

responses.

The background is layered with fragmented AI-generated text, repeating the phrase: "My responses are generated based on patterns and information present in the data I've been trained on, up until my last update in January 2022." This statement, sterile and robotic, disrupts the spiritual imagery, underscoring the limitations of artificial intelligence and the absence of true wisdom or creativity beyond pre-existing datasets. The halo, cracked and peeling, suggests a divinity rendered obsolete by data-driven systems, raising existential questions about knowledge, trust, and the authenticity of intelligence.

Through a fusion of religious iconography, digital culture, and AI-driven language, artist's <!--the_empty_heanded_gods--> #2 challenges viewers to reflect on the nature of intelligence, emotion, and belief in an era increasingly dominated by artificial constructs. It is a powerful commentary on the intersection of technology and humanity, where faith in algorithms may be replacing faith in the intangible.

<!--weight_sorrow_kg-> 2024, Ink, Paper, Gold Lief, 68"x34", $3,000.00

<!--weight_sorrow_kg--> returns to the body—deeply informed by the artist’s Ukrainian identity and the psychological toll of war. Here, she quantifies sorrow not as metaphor but mass, charting trauma’s weight on the body as a universal and political currency.  

In this work, the human body becomes both code and container—a class object scripted to experience sorrow as a measurable unit. The artist draws from programming syntax to simulate emotional impact, layering Python-inspired pseudo-code across the surface of the figure. Stitched wounds, embedded with red thread and golden canisters, evoke the surgical language of trauma while resisting its erasure. Surrounded by emojis—contemporary hieroglyphs of digital feeling—the figure bears a hybrid presence: sacred, wounded, and quantified. The piece emerges from the artist’s ongoing inquiry into how contemporary systems—medical, algorithmic, and ideological—define, process, and even optimize human sorrow, especially in the wake of real collective grief such as war. The question lingers in the code: what is the emotional weight we carry, and how is it calculated?

<!--answer--> / study, 2024, ink, Paper, Lghts, 30"x24", $1,000.00

  <!--AI_scarf_blue_gray-->  2019_Ink_Paper_35"x35"

These scarf designs represent an essential step in refining the AI_Augmented_Iconography concept, allowing for the deliberate fusion of religious iconography and digital symbols within a controlled, patterned format that bridges ornament, ideology, and visual code.

This square textile functions as both ornament and conceptual prototype, using the language of code and social media as sacred pattern. At the center, a Christ-like figure rendered in flat blue tones gestures in benediction, framed by a radiant halo—yet instead of divine scripture, his surroundings are filled with HTML tags, browser commands, and YouTube embed codes. Emojis, “like” icons, binary numbers, and internet symbols form borders and visual chants, recalling the ornamental rigor of religious vestments or illuminated manuscripts. The scarf collapses distinctions between the sacred and the networked, treating contemporary digital syntax as a modern form of spiritual authority. Its wearable nature pushes the concept further: ideology is no longer just seen but carried, worn, and internalized.

   <!--AI_scarf_summerNight-->  2020_Ink_Paper_35"x35"

This scarf design builds on the <!--AI_Augmented_Iconography--> vocabulary by embedding recognizable emojis, algorithmic fragments, and social media icons into a textile format that recalls both sacred ornamentation and mass-produced pattern. Set against a purple field suggestive of liturgical vestments, the motif of binary code crosses the surface like a digital cruciform, intersecting with cats, thumbs, and fragmented faces. By aligning devotional repetition with the compulsive aesthetics of digital culture, the work questions the spiritual weight and emotional labor embedded in contemporary systems of attention, approval, and algorithmic play.

 <!--AI_pattern--> 2021_Ink_Paper_34"x14"

design for a textile or wallpaper

This wallpaper design extends the logic of AI_Augmented_Iconography in to the architectural and domestic realm, embedding digital semiotics into an ornamental system traditionally associated with interior intimacy and repetition. Alternating bands of binary code, emoji-cat faces, and abstracted "@” symbols mimic sacred geometry while simultaneously referencing internet culture’s visual noise. By translating ideological patterns into decorative surfaces, the work reflects on how belief systems—whether spiritual or technological—embed themselves not only in rituals and systems, but in the fabric of everyday life.