Chucky Schuster

Born from a growing disconnection with digital creation, these works explore a return to physical matter. AI-generated imagery is transferred onto wooden panels and transformed through beeswax, pigments, and fire. One of humanity's oldest artistic materials encounters one of its newest technologies. What begins as data becomes something tactile, imperfect, and unpredictable. Through heat and repeated interventions, the original image gradually loses its digital identity, becoming an organic surface somewhere between preservation and decay. A process of material transformation in which the artificial begins to resemble something alive.