Lela Amparo, a self-taught guitarist, turned to film, photography, and travel: three practices that would become the foundation of her visual work. Using her own photographs, organized by theme, she compiles datasets and then feeds them into an artificial intelligence model (GAN) that she customizes to develop her own unique aesthetic. She describes this process as a way of “cooking” her photographs: up to 500 original shots can merge into a single work, giving rise to a sort of visual archetype at the intersection of the tangible and the intangible. Her visual universe, dominated by deep purple hues, vibrant reds, and organic greens, explores the duality between nature and the digital realm, and bears the imprint 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 recomposing her own AI-generated creations, in 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).

Floating through space with not a worry in mind.
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