​A series of synthetic images intrinsically linked to text, which merge digital artifice with traditional darkroom processes. The images metabolise photographic history. Digested and reconstituted, they predict generic forms of impractical, unusable and impossible tools. Fabricated apparatus that serve no purpose, and could never take part in the process of their own making. They resemble objects that long to exist, aspiring to be real. 

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Employing traditional methods of print, the images gain misplaced credibility. Acts of visual forgery wearing the guise of authenticity. Already outdated on viewing, the work interrogates AI’s visual understanding of the photographic darkroom.

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Machine Artifice captures a moment of technological uncertainty, already nostalgic for the present.​