Origins & Evolutions
The 10,000 Hour Project (Ongoing)
A long-term initiative dedicated to mastery, continuity, and education in generative art. This project weaves together gallery-ready artworks, books, and public resources, ensuring that the evolution of MelOrchid’s practice remains transparent, documented, and accessible.
Surreal Couture (2023)
The first large-scale generative fashion series, created through DREST and MidJourney prompts. These works blended high-fashion silhouettes with surreal textures, positioning MelOrchid at the intersection of art, identity, and luxury aesthetics.
Digital Dreams (2017–2019)
A period of experimentation with digital editing and mixed media, layering textures, photography, and symbolic motifs. These works blurred the boundaries between reality and imagination, foreshadowing the artist’s later embrace of generative processes.
Generative AI Art Is Art (2024)
A book and exhibition series asserting the legitimacy of generative art within fine art discourse. This project paired technical deep dives into AI systems with curated artworks, bridging statistics, probability, and painterly surrealism into a single narrative.
Venus.exe (2020)
A mixed media work that fused digital imagery with painterly surfaces. Clouds, light, and metallic textures created a piece that exists between screen and canvas. Venus.exe later became a touchstone for exploring 3D dimensionality and hand-finishing techniques.
Earth, Wind & Fire (2015)
The first breakthrough moment — a photography print juried into a Massachusetts group show from over 500 submissions. This early piece set the foundation for MelOrchid’s practice: capturing natural forces through surreal lenses and translating them into gallery-ready visions.