The Mountains

For Asians, landscape painting has been thought of as a representative symbol that expresses the human mind, not the expression of physical objects. Asians believed that by examining the relationship between nature and human beings they could find the virtues, benevolence and wisdom of the archetypal gentleman scholars dreamed of. In other words, the reason for contemplating mountains and waters was also in many ways a process of self-cultivation and self-reflection. These 100 paintings created through AI are images of mountains are reinterpreted based on thousands of traditional oriental landscape paintings. I call them mountAIns. In this process of creation I ask: are we able to obtain, through these mountAIns, a glimpse of the universal values and goals that for generations people have pursued via a reinterpretation that includes the machine's cognitive process?