shan shui: laboratory

1920  ×  1080 / 12s loop art & music: Laura Elsener animation: Bradley Tangonan

Shan shui: laboratory is the third piece in my shan shui (山水) series.

Here in the shan shui laboratory, we observe my machine learning model incubating new shan shui paintings to share with the world.

Shan shui is a traditional Chinese painting form that translates to “mountain water.” These landscape paintings center mystical mountain ranges understood to be immortal lands.