This whole AI thing is totally new to me. I have been creating art for many years just using digital and analog cameras and also with collage and alternative photographic processes.
But I decided to play around with #midjourney and found it quite fun to create prompts. It's like I'm making up stories and characters to tell them.
So I decided to create a collection of NFTs entirely created with AI and mint it at Tezos blockchain, where I have been exhibiting my other work for a while now.
Incendiaries Collection
I named this collection Incendiaries and to my surprise the first four pieces released sold out in about an hour. This was unexpected and at the same time very cool.
I decided to create something totally different from what I have been doing with my traditional art (which can be seen in many of my previous posts here at Hive). I spent many hours on the screen creating and recreating the prompts to create the characters below, and I'll share a little bit about each of them with you.
Agnes
This was the first character I created with IA. Is it possible to be impacted and have feelings triggered by a work created by IA, as with conventional art? Because this one generated a lot of feelings in me. The text I used to write the image is also the text that describes the whole collection, which was very much based on my own experiences with religions (all Christian), through the strict and conservative education I received.
How many times have you wanted to destroy everything that oppresses you?
How many times has religion castrated your freedom and colonized your body? How many times has religion silenced your beliefs or fertilized your womb without you even wanting to make it fertile soil?
For all those who have been burned for not fitting in, for all of us, it is time to put fire back in.
Li
The position of women in Buddhism has fluctuated from culture to culture and era to era.
When asked, the Buddha assured that women have the same potential as men, but this statement was not enough to pave the way for women's equality in societies that have the majority of their population Buddhist. Realities have not kept up with theory, and women's status remains subordinate to men's. Being born male automatically elevates the boy to a superior status, while being born female relegates the girl to a second-class status. Although Buddhist societies have generally been more egalitarian between the genders than many others, severe gender discrimination persists to this day.
Among "special marks" of a buddha, the most surprising to many modern Buddhists is a covered penis and has encouraged the belief that to be a fully awakened Buddha one must necessarily be a man.
The lotus flower, which is an important symbol for Buddhists, could not be worn by women and only by the Buddha.
"Could the presumption of masculinity be simply another ploy by the patriarchy to maintain its superiority?" (Information obtained from the November 2019 issue of Lion's Roar magazine.
Nyela
"A catastrophe is unfolding in Somalia," says UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) Executive Director Natalia Kanem.
Cases of female genital mutilation and child marriage are rising to alarming levels in parts of Somalia and Ethiopia, countries hard hit by the current drought in the Horn of Africa, the region on the eastern edge of the continent.
For families, with the child marriage leaving, there is one less mouth to feed and the hope that the child bride will go to a home with more resources.
According to Unicef, child marriage and genital mutilation affects girls as young as 12 with men five times older. For Unicef, child marriage and genital mutilation end childhood and expose girls to domestic violence and dropping out of school, creating the risk of a lifetime in poverty.
Child marriage occurs in many parts of the globe and is rooted in a mix of factors such as religion, culture, and social and patriarchal structures.
Noor
Since September 2022 part of the Iranian population, mainly young women, has been protesting against the imposition of wearing the hijab. The women protesters are fighting for autonomy and for their individual right to choose to wear this item or not.
The protests were inflamed after the execution of young Mahsa Amini in September of that year. The protests have been violently fought by the ruling regime and it is difficult to find official data on the number of people killed in the clashes, and among them many teenage women.
Some protesters who are unjustly imprisoned have also been sentenced to execution by the Supreme Court. In most cases they are guilty of "moharebeh" ("war against God" in Persian).
I hope you enjoy this collection and follow me on Twitter for the next drops.