About

Stylized portrait representing ttClaypoole

My work lives somewhere between memory and hallucination, combining vintage photographs, digital painting and pieces of AI-created elements to build surreal worlds filled with red doors, cats, moody skies and characters who seem to have stepped out of a dream... or a noir film.

I use AI much like a painter uses a brush: as one tool in a larger creative process. When I cannot find the object or image I need in an existing photograph, I create that element with AI. Every element is then intentionally shaped, composed and meticulously refined by hand in Photoshop. None of my work is generated by AI alone.

I don't chase trends. I build visual myths from memories I never knew existed, following each work without knowing where it will take me.