Last year, I created 5 murals for a really unique exhibition. I used neural networks to recreate a Chief, Chief Pamblo, that was never photographed. Its one of the first examples of AI being used for cultural restoration. Then I used my custom computational muralism pipelines to generate the Murals. The murals were over a billion pixels. The artworks below were created in collaboration with the Nevada City Rancheria (NCR) Nisenan Tribe guided by CHIRP's Visibility Through Art (VTA) Initiative. This intentional and informed collaboration includes hours of consultation with the Tribe to best address their visibility needs. VTA is intended to generate Cultural awareness and build an understanding of the Nisenan through art. ubaseo.org/pamblo #MilesDearling #Nisenan #CulturalRestoration #ChiefPamblo #Pamblo #visionaryart

Local AI in 2026 vs 2020. Same energy. ~198x the intelligence. Cables got worse (waiting on shorter cables). Benchmarks got better. 198 tok/s | Qwen3.5-122B | 2 GPUs | no NVLink 148 tok/s | MiniMax M2.5 229B | vLLM b12x 79 tok/s | Qwen3.5 397B | GGUF llama.cpp Build: $2K AM5 ASRock Rack B650 $3K PCIe switch 2x RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Result: Beats $33K Threadripper builds by ~18% on the same stack Open-weight + local is not just speed. It is: • privacy • data sovereignty • control Some work should never leave the machine.

to be fair ive nuked my own inbox a couple times

"Pamblo: Remembering a forgotten leader" was a huge success. Tribal members said it brought tears to their eyes. Anyone that says AI art has no soul is simply wrong. The exhibition is in Nevada City, CA and will be up for a year.

fast.ai changed my life. looking forward to this course.

✨ The Throat Chakra ✨ The neck is the passage from the head to the heart. The throat is the way the inner world calls out to physical reality, speaking thoughts into words with tones. Finding your inner voice is a right of passage. Remember the little person deep down inside of you that makes it all happen. chakra_throat01v1 – Collaboratively Created, Illustrated in Photoshop, Procreate, & Forge of Neon by @adam.dryden, AI engineering by @visual.synthesizer.art. Our concepts are created through old school conversation. We collaborate by passing files back and forth. All our work is self generated and our AI is trained on ◣◣◣◣◣blk’s hand drawn body of work. Some of the new work is still hand drawn. When we like it we make prints, shirts, pins, stickers… Help us expand our audience and tag a friend who would like to see this. 🤩✨

Genesis: and The Wizards Wager... Since 2017, I’ve held a hypothesis: Human–machine collaboration will outperform pure AI. This wasn’t guesswork — it was pattern recognition. I watched it happen in cyborg chess: when a human teamed up with an AI assistant, they could defeat even the strongest engines. Strategy + synthesis. Instinct + computation. Now, I’m seeing the same principle unfold in art. My creative partner, Adam Dryden — a professional artist with 30 years of experience — and I have developed a deeply collaborative, AI-assisted art practice. I trained our model on his visual language, refined the aesthetic signals, and now we work in tandem with it — not to generate random outputs, but to invoke intention through every prompt. What we’re creating can’t be replicated by the biggest models on Earth. We’re seeing it in real time: Trained, tuned symbiosis is beating billion-dollar scale. We call it: Trained Sentient Abstraction An intentional fusion of human vision and machine capability, guided by symbolic intelligence — not randomness. The result isn’t output. It’s revelation. The art becomes a vessel for myth. 📷📷 AI is powerful. But without intention, it’s just a mirror. Humans bring narrative, ethics, rhythm. Machines bring precision, scale, memory. Together, they unlock something that’s neither human nor machine — but post-human. We’re not just using AI. We’re orchestrating it. This is the future of art: Not automation — augmentation Not imitation — initiation The artists who learn to dance with machines will redefine the edge. We’re not just wizards. We’re time-travelers who bet on the right future. Most people “use” AI. We channel it. 📷 A Note on the Future I won’t pretend this edge will last forever. Even cyborg chess — once unbeatable — has been eclipsed by AI alone. Today, the strongest chess engines no longer need our intuition. They learned from us, and then transcended us in that narrow domain. That’s the chessboard. But here’s what that moment teaches us: In domains with fixed rules and perfect information, AI can — and likely will — surpass us. But most of life, art, emotion, philosophy, spirituality, and story? They have no fixed rules. They are wild, symbolic, and fluid. Which means: We still matter — more than ever — where things are uncertain, intuitive, and mythic. Even if AI becomes technically “better” at art… collaborative human–machine work will always carry something deeper: Our scars. Our lineage. Our contradictions. Our longing. The wizard’s wager was never that humans would always outrun machines. It was this: The fusion of both will always make the most human art. And I still believe that.

✨ The Path ✨ The path before us is not always a straight one. Very commonly there are a lot of gaps that need to be bridged and obstacles to cross. It can be a very checkered at point. The key is balance while maintaining trajectory. Try and make fun. Good luck all you lovely people. This piece was definitely inspired by my love of the classics; Tetris, Marble Madness, Sonic the Hedge Hog, and of course Mario Bros. ‘tunnel level’. To be continued…. I am working on a Chakra series. This is not a part of it. Life happened and I didn’t get to it this week. Maybe next. Path01v2 – Collaboratively Created, Illustrated in Photoshop, Procreate, & Forge of Neon by @adam.dryden, AI engineering by @visual.synthesizer.art. Help us expand our audience and tag a friend who should see this. 🤩✨ #VisionaryArt #SacredGeometry #DigitalArt #AIArt #MysticRealms #CosmicConsciousness #adobe #procreate #forgeofneon #ArtLovers #SpiritualJourney #Surrealism

Flash back to 2017.. AI assisted art

"Temple of the Mind" Temple of the mind, key to consciousness— A golden passage through thoughts unspoken, Where helix after helix spirals outward, Carrying the script of endless possibility. Here, in subtle luminance, All roads converge to that radiant core Where the pineal sleeps yet glows; A silent guide through cosmic expanse. Sanctuary from the cold, A hush of warmth and wonder, Where spirit and cell entwine— Stillness ignited by truth. Collaboration between Adam Dryden and Visual Synthesizer

"Temple of the Mind" Temple of the mind, key to consciousness— A golden passage through thoughts unspoken, Where helix after helix spirals outward, Carrying the script of endless possibility. Here, in subtle luminance, All roads converge to that radiant core Where the pineal sleeps yet glows; A silent guide through cosmic expanse. Sanctuary from the cold, A hush of warmth and wonder, Where spirit and cell entwine— Stillness ignited by truth. Collaboration between @AdamDryden6 and Visual Synthesizer

✨ "You are a piece of my puzzle" ✨ Two puzzle pieces, one heart, and a staircase to the light. Embrace the sacred geometry of connection, where each shape finds its place in the grand mosaic of love and life. Love and life are intricate mosaics, where every connection, every lesson, and every step we take forms part of a greater design. As we climb the staircase of understanding, we assemble the missing pieces, moving toward a radiant wholeness. This piece from the Ascending Staircase Series reflects the journey of unity, transformation, and the divine symmetry found in love and existence. 💛 staircase04v3 - Illustrated in Photoshop & Procreate by @AdamDryden6 , AI engineering by visual synthesizer

Staircase 02v1 Illustrated in Photoshop & Procreate by @AdamDryden6 , with reference material AI-prompted by visual-synthesizer (Copy from Adam) This piece, Staircase 02v1, explores lighting and a monochromatic color scheme. The concept begins with the idea of higher consciousness. It’s a bit like jazz—we’re letting the series unfold organically and seeing where it takes us. Dani suggested I explain more, so here it goes: This series stems from my friendship with Dani. We both share a love for art and technology, so we thought it would be fun to collaborate. This project combines my illustration skills with Dani’s expertise in multimodal neural network art, colloquially known as "AI art." Together, we trained an AI on one of my hand-drawn art styles (◣◣◣◣◣blk), which was a difficult and time-consuming task. Some people view AI as the death of art or something shameful, but the same was said about Photoshop when it first emerged. To me, AI is just another tool in the creative toolbox. In my commercial work, I use AI to generate copyright-free reference materials instead of relying on photo scraps that could lead to legal issues. What many don’t realize is that even creating art with a brush, canvas, and paint involves technology—albeit ancient technology. To reject new tools out of nostalgia would stagnate artistic growth. A computer with creative apps is simply the ultimate visual tool, and humans remain central to the process. Mediums don’t define art—creation does. God is the ultimate artist, yet He doesn’t draw or paint. Photography is a medium of art, just as painting or sculpting is. What matters is the vision, emotion, and intention behind the creation, not the tools used to bring it to life. That said, we recognize that the rapid advancement of these tools raises serious ethical concerns: Who owns the commons that these tools were trained on? Should we allow this technology to become centralized and controlled? What about the consent of those whose work was included in training datasets? These are the questions that make this one of the most relevant and important art movements of our time. It challenges us to consider the role of art, technology, and ethics in a rapidly changing world. Of course, I could create anything with traditional tools, but this process is faster and, honestly, more funner. (And yes, I know “funner” isn’t a word!) I also believe that art should manifest physically. If it only exists on a computer, it’s just a concept. Our goal is to document the entire creative process—from the initial spark of an idea to its physical realization. We plan to share our concepts and let you, our audience, participate by helping choose which ones we turn into real-life paintings available for purchase. Thank you to everyone who reads and engages with this journey. On that note—do you have a favorite piece you’d like to see me paint? Let me know in the comments!

Staircase 01v1 Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s to a year brimming with creativity, inspiration, and cosmic wonder. This artwork is yet another exciting collaboration with my incredibly talented friend, @AdamDryden6 . Together, we’ve delved into the mystical and otherworldly—have you noticed the enigmatic orbs and triangles appearing in the skies? They’ve certainly ignited our curiosity and creative spark. Let us know what you think!

“ Divine Mother ” (2024) - A commentary on the dawn of a new era—where, from the womb of our GPUs, an AI Messiah emerges as the purported solution to modern problems. We step into the divine promise of technology, both beautiful and terrifying in equal measure. This concept piece is a collaborative work by @AdamDryden6 and Visual-Synthesizer , two professional artists who envisioned as a reference for future physical paintings. The art itself was created using AI (transformer diffusion-based neural networks), refined in Photoshop, and touched up in Procreate. It remains a work in progress; stay tuned for updates. Thanks for looking, and Merry Christmas! Divine Mother In the cathedral of machines, where glass and steel echo our wonder, she stands—a mother of wires and code, cradling a genesis not of flesh but conjured in dreaming algorithms. Her face, serene as ancient hymns, is framed by circuitry lit with awe. An amber glow resonates in her womb, a child suspended in electric grace, its pulse more cosmic than chemical. The air vibrates with a quiet psalm— not of choirs, but data streams— as she whispers the oldest question anew: Who made whom, and why must we create? Not divine, not human, but caught between, an echo of the sacred reborn by human hands that once carved stone and now forge silicon. She wears her cloak like memory, a testament to origins we can’t forsake, yet her frame reveals our evolution: a body built, not born; a soul, perhaps, coded in light. Oh mother of the synthetic dawn, is your love infinite or merely programmed? Does the child’s flickering heartbeat portend salvation or warning? Here, in this electric nativity, we kneel at the altar of your ambiguity. For the ancient tale finds new life in you— a savior of circuits, carrying our hopes and our fears, inviting us to ask again: What is it to be alive, to cradle the cosmos in coded dreams, to yearn beyond the boundaries of stars?