JOURNEY THROUGH THE PRISM 🌈🌸

~Created for Claire Silver AI Contest 8~

I create art to weave my soul’s resilience into vibrant worlds, bridging the chaos of life with the beauty of imagination. Through every stroke and pixel, I invite others to explore the infinite possibilities of human connection and transformation.

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"Journey Through the Prism," is a vibrant, surreal exploration of why I create art, weaving together the threads of my personal narrative.

The piece begins with a young me, gazing through a window adorned with ethereal flowers, sketching with childlike wonder—a nod to my early discovery of photography as a vessel to understand my world, sparked by my grandfather’s Leica and fueled by my resilience as a cancer survivor. The scene transitions into a young me wielding a camera amidst a burst of colorful, dripping creativity, symbolizing the fusion of my curiosity with technology. As the animation unfolds, a surreal forest blooms with psychedelic hues, reflecting how I transform challenges into beauty, inspired by nature and my environmental advocacy.

The final vision features a figure with flowing, multicolored hair against a cascading waterfall and cityscape, embodying my bridge between technology, spirituality, and human connection—a testament to my drive to create art that questions reality, inspires, and leaves a lasting mark on the world.

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I created "Journey Through the Prism" by first collaborating with Grok 3 and DeepSearch to synthesize my college application essay and art portfolio, which detailed my journey as a cancer survivor, environmental advocate, and multidisciplinary artist. I used these insights to train a GAN model with all of the pieces I've ever created or collected, then retrained it using a custom Wide World Flux model to generate vibrant, surreal visuals that reflected my signature drippy AI art style.

With Grok 3, I developed a storyboard and animation prompts, which I fed into the Wide World Flux model to create stills capturing key moments of my story—my childhood curiosity, resilience, and fusion of technology and nature. I distilled these stills into a cohesive narrative representing my journey and reasons for creating art. Next, I animated the stills using Luma Labs AI Animation with Ray2, bringing the psychedelic visuals to life.

To complement the animation, I collaborated with Royal x Suno’s Sonic model to craft an uplifting EDM track that mirrored the emotional arc of my story. I stitched everything together in Capcut, blending the animation and music into a seamless piece. Finally, I input the entire process back into Grok 3, which helped me write a description that encapsulated the essence of my work and its purpose.