Let’s talk about A.I.

I draw a firm boundary between my independent art practice and my work with design technology.

My current art and illustration practice is analog and AI-free. I do not use generative AI to make artwork, imitate another artist’s voice, or replace commissioned creative labor. The hand, material, process and authorship are fundamental to that work.

In my professional design practice, I engage with AI selectively and critically. At Bloom, I contribute to our AI council and explore how these systems can support analysis, prototyping, code, structured production and design-system workflows—including experiments connecting language models with Figma and design tokens.

I am interested in AI as a subject of design and organizational responsibility, not as an automatic substitute for skill or judgment. Its outputs can be inaccurate, derivative, biased, visually weak or inappropriate to the people a service is meant to support. They require human evaluation, transparency and accountability.

I do not consider current AI systems ethically neutral. Questions of authorship, provenance, consent, privacy, labor and environmental cost remain unresolved and must be taken seriously. My responsibility as a designer is to understand both the possibilities and the harms, establish clear boundaries for use, and retain critical human control over every consequential decision.

AI may support parts of a professional design process when its use is appropriate and disclosed. It does not make my art, and it does not replace my responsibility for the work.