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Time We Have - Horizontal

Lela Amparo

Time We Have - Horizontal

Generative art
Nature
Meditative

Seeing portals everywhere I look.

format

landscape

technique

generative art

duration

02:21

year

2024

Transport

Lela Amparo

Sweden

Lela Amparo’s creative journey began with music. Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, this self-taught guitarist naturally gravitated toward film, photography, and travel, three pursuits that would become the foundation of her visual work. From Morocco to Norway, via France and Sweden where she now lives, she tirelessly captures images as she travels. For years, these photos lay dormant in boxes, until 2019, when she decided to give them a second life: she compiled datasets from her own photographs, organized by theme, and fed them into an artificial intelligence model (GAN) that she customized to develop a unique aesthetic of her own. She describes this process as a way of “cooking” her photographs: up to 500 original shots can be merged into a single work, giving rise to a sort of visual archetype, at the intersection of the tangible and the intangible. Rooted in photography, her approach is now fully established in the field of digital art, without abandoning film photography, which she continues to practice through the production of prints. Her visual world, dominated by deep purple hues, vibrant reds, and organic greens, explores the duality between nature and the digital realm, and bears the mark of her multicultural heritage (Native American, African American, Filipino, and Slovak) as well as a vaporwave and glitch aesthetic inherited from her childhood in the 1990s. More recently, she has taken this exploration even further by recycling and reworking her own AI-generated creations as part of an ongoing process of reinvention.

As an ambient music producer with over 11 million streams, Lela Amparo fuses her sonic and visual worlds to offer a multisensory experience, with the aim of transporting listeners and viewers to a parallel dimension. Her work has earned her international recognition: she has exhibited at Digital Art Week 2024 in London, Forgotten Places 2023 in Rome, and Contemporary Abstract 2023 in Kansas City, and completed an artist residency at Frameless in London in 2023. She has also been featured in Forbes Magazine (2024), Digital Arts Blog (2024), and AL-TIBA9 Art Magazine (2023).

Time We Have - Horizontal

Seeing portals everywhere I look.

technique

generative art

format

landscape

duration

02:21

year

2024

Transport

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