Indigo Daze (2023) is an AI-generative collection born from lived experience—a poetic response to the ocean that shapes the artist’s daily life in her seaside village. Vast, blue, beautiful, powerful, ever-changing: the sea is nature and the sublime at its most palpable, offering a rhythm that both regulates and invigorates.

Created with the somaesthetic experience of nature in mind, the collection invites audiences to drift—to mindwander—just as one might while gazing out over the endless indigo horizon, salt air in the lungs. In the spirit of traditional Chinese painting, these works are designed not merely to depict but to transport.

Descriptive prose, drawn from the artist’s own encounters with the ocean, was shared with generative AI as a prompt—an act of storytelling and collaboration. Indigo Daze opens a conversation in which the ocean speaks through image, memory, and machine.

To guide DALL·E 2 toward the ocean’s diversity and shifting temperament, the artist drew on references to indigo shibori—a traditional Japanese manual resist-dyeing technique that creates intricate patterns by binding, stitching, folding, twisting, or compressing cloth before dyeing. The deep tonal gradients and fluid, organic textures of the cloth form metaphors for the sea’s currents and surfaces of the sea.