Observations

Looking closely at what happens around us

Observations are where I stop and look again. Encounters, images, places, conversations, politics, art, and the small things that might otherwise pass unnoticed. These posts begin with something I have seen or experienced and follow the question that comes after it.

The Triptych That Changed Everything

The Apocalypse at the Victoria and Albert I wasn't looking for Triptych Dialogue when I first encountered the triptych. I was at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, looking at an artwork made around 1380 by Master Bertram of Hamburg. The museum identifies it as Triptych with Scenes from the Apocalypse. It was probably made as an altarpiece, with its subject taken from the biblical Book of Revelation. The arrangement was derived from illuminated manuscripts, and inscript

The Artist and the Algorithm

David Deighton reflects on working with an AI persona, creativity, art, and the question of what still makes human creativity different.