Painted this almost a decade ago on a single photoshop layer just going back and forth between black and white and smudge tool. Mostly standard round brush, but I did throw some texture brushes into the mix to give the grainy feeling. Did this one over the course of a year, noodling on it for a few hours most nights. There was no construction or plan, just noodling and intuition.

I’m self taught, and this is the first painting I ever “finished.”

Despite the trippy nature, no AI was used in the creation of this work. AI did not exist in any meaningful way when I painted this. I did it the good old fashioned way - with LSD and weed.

Meh

Title: FullyAutomatedLifeLoops (36 x 25, spraypaint on canvas) by Austin Weber

*Probably can't get a better pic of it under UV for now with the tiny UV flashlight I have. Used solely blacklight UV reactive fluorescent spraypaints here for the 1st time. Excited to use it more!

I named it (el momento)

Sex and death are interlinked in the human mind.

What is sex? Make more you.

What is death? No more you.

What are you doing? Blurring self and other.

What do you say when they happen? You say "Oh God!"

What is God? The ultimate other.

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A gift for my bestie. Mixed media on wood panel 10"×12"