Artificial Renderings III
Kaitlyn Elphinstone’s Artificial Renderings series unsettles viewers’ expectations by employing AI-driven software to generate a startling body of images that subtly distort the source photographs from which they originate. Appliqued and embroidered elements further complicate the visual and material registers of the artist’s images, which include a panoramic harbour scene and a group of figures aboard a sailing vessel that appears to be an inexact facsimile of a Caymanian catboat. Detailed inspection reveals a host of further anomalies, producing in the viewer the uncanny effect of both strangeness and familiarity in equal measure.
