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One of the most rewarding aspects of running a newsletter is inviting fellow AI artists to curate issues. When they share the work of artists they admire or resonate with, it opens up entirely new perspectives for me. Their selections reflect diverse tastes, experiences, and approaches to AI art that I might not have encountered on my own. It turns the newsletter into a collaborative discovery process that continuously expands my view of the AI art community and deepens my appreciation for its evolving creativity.

This issue’s curator, Keith @kwano.gen is a digital creator based in Oslo. We’re both members of the @frmwrk.ai collective and have been following each other’s work on Instagram for a while. Almost all of Keith’s selections were new to me, which made curating alongside him a genuinely refreshing experience. One familiar name stood out, Veronika Pell @__mindeye___ an artist I deeply admire, so I’ve added a few personal thoughts to her profile in this issue. Huge thanks to Keith for introducing me to so much inspiring new work and for including one of my longtime favorites.

“I am blown away by how welcoming the Ai community is and have made so many great friendships within it. My selection of artists in this issue aim to showcase a variety of styles and perspectives that I find particularly inspiring. There is a multitude of unique voices in this space which I think with fuel many creative visions going forward.”
-@kwano.gen

“My artistic channel is kind of a vehicle to explore different ideas I have on the impact of various technologies on society. I aim to explore, with my work, both dystopian and utopian visions of what these changes mean. Subject matter explorations to name a few include data privacy, AI evolution, cybernetics, alien tech.”
– @kwano.gen

This issue is titled You are… from ** You Are Still Broke **, a phrase borrowed from one of the featured artists, @thisisioland. She’s a witty wordsmith whose idiomatic, playful approach to AI art always made me pause and smile. Her work blends humor, charm, and commentary in a way that feels both lighthearted and sharp. The title felt like the perfect nod to her voice and the spirit of this curation.It’s all about the art and the spirit of creation.

My words on Veronika with the rest of the artists chosen by Keith listed below.

@__mindeye___’s art feels like an experience you’re not quite sure about, half-remembered, pixelated at the edges, quietly surreal. Her portraits, often of herself, seem to hover in that strange space between presence and disappearance. Faces blur, shift, and dissolve. Nothing is fully clear, and that’s exactly the point. A series inhabited by two floating faces and half-plant creatures drift through soft pastel landscapes of pale pink and blue, with unsettling expressions like childhood toys from another dimension. Playful, but also a little too strange to be comforting. Movement plays are subtle flickers , tiny, looping animations that make her art feel alive, but not in a straightforward way, more like a memory playing back on a glitchy screen.

Veronika’s work is a mix of soft digital textures, emotional abstraction, and surreal storytelling. It’s beautiful, a little eerie, and totally original. In her hands, distortion becomes delicate. She explores identity not by showing it clearly, but by letting it blur, shift, and drift like a thought just out of reach.