about
"For me, making art is stepping into a playground of fantasy and color where I can try to make sense of life or escape it altogether."
JT O'Neal, author and artist, has published poetry in Bayousphere, written and illustrated picture books for the Children's Learning Institute, and provided traditional animation for film and television including the motion picture James and the Giant Peach. With a passion for the esoteric, JT creates images and writes fiction and poetry exploring the liminal, the mysterious, and the magical. He is currently based in Houston and is a proud cat dad.
Thoughts on AI
"When asked if I use AI in my work, my answer is a resounding NO! Meaning, I do not use image or text generation to produce a 'product'. There are many interesting and beneficial uses of machine learning technologies being applied to the sciences and elsewhere, but the arts isn't really one of them (beyond experimentation in some cases). I think it is a fundamental misunderstanding of the creative process that anyone would want to offload it to a machine."