alison shanks

- 2025 -

My sculptures are beginning to have more of an obvious alien form.
In my sculpture, “Inner Web,” the fingers have metamorphosed into spiders legs. She is entangled in a spider’s web.
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly becoming a widespread “life-form” beneficial in science and medicine, but not so benign in its use in the creation of misinformation, surveillance and biased algorithms.  Chat Bots are becoming more and more prevalent. It is becoming difficult to know who is human.
 AI is creeping stealthily into our lives. It is watching and learning.

I only have eyes for you. Porcelain Clay ht 65 w 50 d 19cm.	Inner Web. Porelain Clay ht 49 w 33 d 32cm	King AI. Porcelain Clay ht 50 w 38 d 25cm.
Dronehead. Porcelain clay ht 80 w 50 d 30cm.	Click the above picture to see Dronehead in operation. (This is a Vimeo link which opens in a new window: you do not need to join Vimeo)