Algorithm of Presence

The work was created from a private photograph depicting a child and a dog that is no longer here. The piece explores the relationship between memory, loss, and artificial intelligence as a tool for reconstructing emotional presence. The creative process combines intuitive painting with AI aesthetics: layers resembling scanning, data traces, and organic lines create a visual record of an attempt to recover a memory. Artificial intelligence does not function here as a generator of new images, but as a co-creator of memory — an attempt to teach the algorithm emotion, longing, and closeness. The work becomes a dialogue between human and machine, between what has been lost and what can still be preserved in memory. "AI does not replace memory. AI tries to learn longing."