Billy Crosby is an artist working somewhere between painting, AI image systems, collaborative projects and minor acts of digital gardening.
The work is made using diffusion models alongside painting. Paintings are produced in dialogue with generated images and then used to train models, allowing a personal visual language to emerge across both systems.
The work borrows the structure of medieval workshops, where authorship was already a distributed problem. In this version the assistants are diffusion models, datasets, collectors and whatever the current configuration of space weather happens to encourage.
In keeping with medieval devotional traditions, they treat images as interfaces - ways of focusing attention and communicating with forces beyond the image itself.
Identity appears throughout the work but only in processed form - folded into personas or passing briefly through narrative figures. The self does not appear directly but as something continually mediated, translated through images, systems, and circulating representations.