AI Statement
Artificial intelligence has introduced both new tools and new temptations into the creative process. But I think everyone reading this would agree: it is improper to prompt a AI system to generate an image and then present that image as one’s own original artwork. That approach is plainly dishonest and violates the basic relationship between artist and viewer.
Yet, I do believe there is an ethical way to use AI as a helpful, time-saving tool.
When I use AI (which , I should mention, is infrequently), it functions only as a visual aid — a shortcut for exploring composition, scale, or color relationships. Each session begins with my own work: an original sketch, photograph, or print. AI may help me explore how a piece might look in another format, with different colors or with altered elements, but it never replaces the act of creation itself.
Moreover, regardless of what these digital tools produce, those images are nothing more than a reference. As a printmaker, there is no avoiding the act of drawing the work onto a plate, carving the plate, and finally hand-pulling a print from a press.
To state it plainly: I have never used AI output as a final work of art (as a printmaker, this would be impossible anyway), nor do I prompt AI to create art without an original reference of my own creation.
The act of creation should be the artist’s alone.