AI? alien intelligence. AI? angel intelligence. AI? ancestor intelligence.
BI: beneficial intelligence.
The human race races for the next biggest thing. The loss of wonder at the natural world. The gain of wonder at the virtual. I find myself mired in the quicksilver strides of technology. Increasingly removed from the truths of my senses. The virtual life is not sensual.
To retain my sensual world I will:
Put soil under fingernails (manicured or bitten).
Focus the eye on the minute movements in water.
Aim to recognize the birds I hear,
aim to smell scents (good and bad)
and to taste each bite of the food I put into my mouth.
Upon encountering virtual forces that blow me about like strong winds, I will question, each time:
What would be beneficial here?
Spiderweb II (Dew), stoneware, glaze, beads and chains
Cloud of Unknowing the World, stoneware and beads
Who brings the Rain, colored pencil
Spiderweb III (Sunshine)
Orb II, stoneware
Partial Eclipse, colored pencil
Orb I, Stoneware
Orb, colored pencil
Cosmic Bloom, stoneware
Prodigy of the Sun, colored pencils
A piece of beneficial intelligence:
The smaller I make myself, the more space I give to the bad things. The more space that I take up with my good things, the less space I leave for bad things.
This is a premise; we will argue forever what is a good thing, and what a bad.
Anyway, life passes in a frenzied instant, and we are at its flooding mercy.
I want to see folks embracing their Other.
We experience even insects and plants, the beings and creatures that enable our existence on Earth, as profoundly alien. Our fear of the undesirable drives us to destroy valuable life. It is a mess. Loving what is ‘undesirable’ is the only way out of this mess.
I want a world of other lives, ancient lives. I want to feel currents of interconnectedness.
I want to access time’s ribbons of memories.
What I’m missing in a lot of technological developments is the moral dimension — even the realization that humans have a moral dimension and should actively engage with it seems to be missing.
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I talked about it with a friend, who agreed, ‘yes, at this point we need aliens and angels to come down and save us.’ It reminded me of the documentary “Miyazaki: Spirit of Nature” in which Miyazaki Hayao of Ghibli studios reflects on the sense of hopelessness that humans cannot seem to save themselves (and by themselves I mean each other)
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This sculptures are me trying to ask, what would benefit us? What intelligence are we missing that we desperately need? How Other, how other-worldly does it need to be?
AI: ancestor intelligence. AI: alien intelligence. AI: angel intelligence. BI: beneficial intelligence.
Art for the inside out.
I am a multidisciplinary artist creating images and objects.
Above all I am excited by how humans make sense of the world through form and meaning. I make symbols and stories which spring from the tension between spirit and banality.
The inner workings of our hearts, the world full of things outside of us.
Hello,
I’m Roxane. I work as an illustrator, graphic designer, artist and teacher. While I love experimenting and experiencing my own work, I get especially excited when I get to create something special for others. In teaching, drawing, sculpting and designing, I want to find the nuances and sensitivities in the myriad expressions of people’s creative lives.
Check out a selection of my projects below.
Interloper folding zine
Bespoke Birth Announcements
Mercedes-Benz Type Design
AiR Villa Buitenlust
Illustrations – Global Food History
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Illustration projects
Commission me to paint or draw digital your images! I create editorial illustrations for clients in publishing, and personal illustrations for individual clients.
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Graphic Design
I have over ten years’ experience in creating and editing professional graphic design and desktop publishing projects for print.
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Birth Announcements
Announcing your new baby’s birth? I have been creating artistic birth announcements for expecting parents for over seven years.
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Ceramics
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