Exhibitions
CHALET COMELLAS: AI LOVE SONGS FOR CHATBOTS
Nashville International Airport / 1 Terminal Dr. September 22, 2025 - January 5, 2026
Chalet Comellas
To create the titles for each of the five works on view, I assembled, deconstructed, and reconstructed a selection of texts from several sources and used ChatGPT to help synthesize the main themes and connect them to language associated with popular technology and computer science. I took those results and, through further prompts, distilled paragraphs into short phrases and used them as titles for the works. This collection of titles is inscribed onto the paintings, and when read together, generates a poem or lyric—similar to the Exquisite Corpse strategies used by the Surrealists, as well as by many modern songwriters.
I was inspired by the work of Hilma af Klint, whose abstract paintings—sometimes resembling diagrams—were visual representations of complex ideas related to both science and mysticism. From that, I developed a systematic, rule-based process of painting, where I apply layers of color washes onto wet, raw canvas surfaces and leave them to dry. The end result is a collection of unique, amorphous color field paintings that suggest emerging forms and faces. I see this open-ended process as a collaboration between my conscious mark-making and something outside of my control—what af Klint calls “the ether body,” the unseen vibrating waves of physical matter that surround us.
You can find the exhibition in Terminal 1 at BNA, on Level 1 in the waiting area for International Arrivals.
Image: Detail from, A dream of being, installation views of the exhibition, AI love songs for chatbots, at the Nashville International Airport (BNA), located in Terminal 1, Level 1, within the International Arrivals waiting area.
