JUANA ESTRADA HERNANDEZ had another exhibition at HECHO A MANO Gallery in Santa Fe, so I went to her Donut Talk on March 7, 2026. Since I had been following her career since she was a graduate student at UNM, I made a BIG BLOG Post of all the photos I posted of her:
- I also sent a stack of EXQUISITE TESSELLATION uncarved linocuts to Juana in Rhode Island later on
DRAWINGS
AI ART
HOW MUCH INFLUENCE DO MY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS HAVE ON THE FINAL AI GENERATED IMAGE?
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My drawing into a 3D paper sculpture
using AI in KREA Realtime and Tripo,
and broken into 3D parts with SegvinGen
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I experimented with a flickering kind of image, a hybrid of my original drawing and AI:
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I discovered FLOW this month, the new video generation program/interface from Google which I can use for free at the moment. I got an email from Google on March 5th, that they are consolidating their image generation programs into FLOW by April 30, 2026.
So I used FLOW and Midjourney to make the AI animation video below. Then I collaborated on YouTube with Adric with this YouTube video, though I don't understand how that "collaboration" was related (though his got over 500 views, verses like 50 for my original video):
- OpenAI introduced MAI-image-2 for image generation on March 19, 2026 -- though I did not use it yet. Apparently it is only a prompt-to-image service, and does not allow me to upload a photo and alter it with AI. Also it was an ordeal to sign into.
- OpenAI terminated SORA on March 24, 2026 -- my SORA videos
- Midjourney refused my payment once again on March 26, 2026. However KREA didn't have any problem renewing my subscription for another year on March 31, 2026 with the same method of payment (though this is a legacy subscription that they don't offer to new subscribers)
- Midjourney put out an alpha version of their new model V8 on March 17, 2026. However they would not let me try it without making a "personalization profile." Moreover Midjourney censors my figure drawings too heavily; and when they don't censor, Midjourney does not do a good job with organic shapes, at least not in my style. I always feel like they are shoehorning all their generations into the same Tim Burton style, or into something similar that dominates all their generations for everyone that uses them, becoming more stale even as the models get more powerful. It makes more sense to subscribe to FLOW at this point rather than spending more money on Midjourney. However Midjourney has been really good about resolving their billing problems in the past, which is one reason I have continued with them...
Adam programed a toy robot that Adric bought, to draw one of my figures:
PRINTS
We also saw some great print exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum:
The HERSTORY PRINT COLLECTIVE had a PRINT WORKSHOP at the Albuquerque Museum on March 28, 2026. Julianna Kirwin sent me photos (as I was in Denver that day):
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