CONTACTS
AI DESIGNER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR
1 / CRIMSON TIDES - CONCEPTUAL SERIES
Crimson Tides is a surreal visual project exploring strength, survival, and quiet violence within an artificial landscape. A black horse emerges, resists, and dissolves inside a rose-colored body of water — a symbol of beauty turned hostile.
2 / CONCEPT
Crimson Tides reflects on the tension between power and vulnerability when nature is placed inside an altered, aestheticized environment. The horse — historically a symbol of freedom, nobility, and force — is suspended within a synthetic, almost luxurious sea, where survival becomes an act of resistance rather than dominance.
The pink water functions as a paradox: visually calm and seductive, yet unnatural and oppressive. It represents systems that disguise danger as beauty — environments that appear safe, controlled, or desirable while quietly eroding what exists within them.
Rather than depicting collapse or escape, the project focuses on presence: the act of standing, emerging, and enduring inside an unstable reality. Crimson Tides is not about conquest, but about persistence — about what remains visible when everything else becomes artificial.
3 / PROCESS
Crimson Tides was developed through a concept-led, AI-assisted workflow.
The project began with detailed visual direction defining subject symbolism, color psychology, environmental tension, and photographic language. Multiple image generations were explored to refine posture, movement, scale, and the relationship between the subject and the surrounding water.
AI was used as a visual tool to simulate physical realism — water behavior, reflections, muscle tension, and light interaction — while all creative decisions regarding narrative, composition, and meaning remained human-driven.
Final selections were curated from several iterations, focusing on clarity of concept, visual restraint, and emotional impact rather than spectacle. The result is a controlled, deliberate series where atmosphere and symbolism take precedence over literal action
