Through the Veil of Fantasy

– @perfectagala

In her own words. Meet Niara / @notitletest

I’m Niara. Brazilian. A drummer and flutist who lifts weights, reads obsessively, and runs on coffee (and sometimes bourbon). I have a background in fashion, visual arts, and semiotics (the lens through which everything I create). AI became my medium when nerve degeneration in my wrist took traditional drawing away from me. What began as frustration turned into a portal. Through AI, I now craft visual poetics that linger between beauty and discomfort, images haunted by absences, spectral presences, and open-ended symbols. I’m drawn to the fragile space between what we see and what we feel.

Everything that stirs, echoes, and insists.
We shape what we feel.
We translate thoughts into form.
A gesture. A sound. Even silence.
Everything we carry inside.
Nothing is fixed.
Meaning slips.
It stays open.
Not answers, but resonances.

By day, I work on the graphic design team of a fashion group, where I handle print and branding for lingerie, shapewear, and fitness labels.@notitletest is where I house my haunted dreams and symbolic disorders.

These wonderful artists use AI to unlock the visual unconscious. They craft dream-like and surreal imagery sharing worlds that exist beyond rational logic and the laws of physics. Together they enchant and unsettle us all together with impossible portraits, metaphysical landscapes, and visual metaphors that evoke dreams, fables, and distorted memories. In every work, symbols and signs address each other, giving rise to a semiotic play between the visible and the invisible, conscious and subconscious.

Supporting the AI art community matters to me because it’s a space of rupture, honesty, and experimentation. Artists are using these tools to express ideas that don’t fit within traditional categories and that kind of boundary-pushing work deserves to grow. When curating, I look for a clear and coherent voice, with work that doesn’t just create beautiful visuals, but builds an atmosphere, asks questions, holds tension, and leaves something lingering beneath the surface.

@nothingisreal336
His art is a deeply contemplative dreamer’s vision, as though his images pulled directly from his subconscious. The dramatic and theatrical lighting gives us the sensation of slipping into an unsettling reverie where each image suggests multiple symbolic meanings. There’s a visual tension between reality and imagination. We’re not witnessing a static image, but a fluid moment, like dreams in continuous motion.

@loubser.art
Her work presents surrealism in its purest form. Her vision unshapes the known, disassembles anticipation, and suggests an exquisite tension between sweet and strange. It’s a visual strategy that evokes discomfort exactly by overturning familiar shapes, revealing the tenuousness of the divide between fantasy and fact, inviting the viewer to interpret what appears to be indecipherable.

@florigenix_ai
His work exudes a light, ritualistic, almost shamanic quality. With the use of distinctive music and symbolic elements connected to nature, the images transcend visual experience and become multisensory experiences. It’s magical surrealism whose symbolism speaks to universal archetypes of balance, transformation, and spirituality.

@notitletest (me)
In my work visual poetics walk a tightrope between beauty and discomfort. Each image is haunted by an unspoken, lingering void, as if something is always on the threshold of emerging or vanishing, maximizing the ambiguity and mystery, inviting open and multiple readings. The beautiful turns sinister, placing perceptual and affective certainties against one another.

@weloveyou_baobei
Her work blends pop surrealism with psychedelic spirituality, resulting in vibrant and oracular images. Each composition seems to carry a hidden message, a symbol waiting to be interpreted, as if we’re standing before a visual oracle. The cosmic-kitsch aesthetic is intertwined with contemporary spirituality, intuition, and seeking meaning in an over-image world.

These artists are not only using AI as a tool, but also as a powerful filter, in order to uncover deep streams of collective unconscious and imagination. Theirs is a dialogue between mythical states and human perception, increasing our capacity to dream, to read, to perceive. It is to go beyond the veil of illusion, passing beyond the physical. It is to allow wonder and discomfort, to feel in each work a shattered mirror of our soul.