Infinite Petals is the most recent digital body of work by Sarah Meyohas that builds on almost a decade of work with artificial intelligence and crypto assets. The artist has built upon this past work to train an AI model, referencing the dataset of 100,000 physical rose petals, in order to generate endless, new and unique petals to be created as NFTs on the blockchain.
This series is a continued exploration of algorithmic beauty and the phenomenon of emergence within both natural and manmade systems. The physical petals are transformed into gridded arrangements of interpolating digital petals behaving according to algorithms of varied complexity: checkerboards, concentric squares, and John Conway’s Game of Life, as initial inspirations. Each of the GAN’s (or Generative Adversarial Network) individual petals consists of 512 dimensions, producing an incomprehensible latent space mirroring the vastness of today’s machine intelligence and our digital world.