MIND PRINTS
Choy recreated two works from her Indigo Daze collection, transforming digital creations generated by AI into physical objects through the hand and heart of the artist. In this process, the seemingly artificial nature of their mechanized origin is suffused with qi — the vital principle of life and energy. Passed through the human hand and heart, the digital object is animated with the artist’s life force. Traces of human qi are breathed into the work, imbuing it with the subtle reverberations of the body. In this approach, the artwork becomes a living conduit, bridging technological creation and embodied human presence.
Only collectors of Indigo Daze are able to commission a mind-print from the artist. This gesture establishes a living bond between the original collection and its future manifestations, while also deepening the relationship between patron and artist. In this reciprocity, the act of collecting becomes more than acquisition — it becomes participation, a feedback loop of trust, dialogue, and shared creation. By limiting the possibility of a mind-print to those who hold a piece of Indigo Daze, the artist creates an intimate allow-list — a circle of reciprocity in which the artwork itself becomes the key that unlocks further creation.
Sapphire Sea (2023) DALL·E 2 and Procreate, PNG 400px
No Brighter Jewel (2023) Water colour on 300 gsm cotton rag, Edition of 45 Published March 21, 2023 by Trigon Art X Nifty Gateway
Blue Divine (2023) DALL·E 2 and Procreate, PNG 400 x 400px
Blue Transience (2023) Water colour on 300 gsm cotton rag, inscribed on-chain March,19, 2023
For each piece in Indigo Daze, only one mind-print will ever be created as its sister work. The collector receives both the physical painting and its digital token, a dual embodiment binding the material and the immaterial together. This act acknowledges the finite capacity of human output — the time, energy, and embodied presence required to bring a painting into being, and the inevitable limits of a human life. In contrast, it underscores the boundless iterations AI can generate, endlessly replicating without fatigue or mortality. Here too, a feedback loop is revealed: AI iterates endlessly outward, while the human artist, bounded by life, turns inward, distilling gesture, time, and presence into singular, unrepeatable works. By inscribing this human limit into the structure of the project, the artist affirms the irreplaceable scarcity of human gesture, situating each mind-print as both a companion to technology and a testament to life’s fragile brevity.
