The Body at the Edge of the Signal: AI, Glitch, and Painting After the Machine

The Body at the Edge of the Signal is a series of six oil paintings, arranged as two triptychs, each canvas 64 by 32 inches, made through a deliberately entangled process. I generated the images with Stable Diffusion XL and a LoRA trained on 3,500 frames of my own video glitch archive, composed them in ComfyUI, and then sent them to skilled artisans who translated them by hand into oil on canvas. With this series I ask what happens when an unstable digital image is slowed down, carried across the world, and made permanent: how much of a body survives its passage through noise, software, and craft, and who can claim to have authored what remains.