She does not blink. The drones hover. Her silence is the spell.
This piece from the The Drones of Suburbia (Roma) – Ink Interventions collection explores the collision between divinity, surveillance, and embodiment in the age of AI. The central figure, part-machine, part-Vestal priestess, is wrapped in digitally-rendered ink and textures that recall torn fabric, surgical gauze, or perhaps ectoplasm—anchoring her simultaneously in mythology and speculative future.
The hovering drones appear to offer protection, but they might also be captors. Their elegance mimics birds or insects, feminine in shape but weaponised in intention—autonomous extensions of empire. They are Roma’s angels and her enforcers.
This is not dystopia. This is ritual. An invocation. A re-mythologising of the female form within a hyper-surveilled, hyper-stylised Rome 3.0.
Ink Interventions is my methodology of reclaiming AI through the feminine gaze, one which disturbs the perfect surface and reasserts physical memory, texture, and spiritual interruption. In this work, the intervention is not just aesthetic—it is ontological. We are disrupting not just the image, but the idea of who gets to create, who gets to watch, and who gets to survive the gaze.
