Size: 120x100 cm

Technique: Acrylic, enamel on canvas


In a World of Digital Art, Stay Fine

A motto I came to coin in response to the digital era of creation.

We are living through an extraordinary expansion of image-making. Galleries, screens, feeds and virtual spaces are saturated with images—beautiful, immediate, endlessly reproducible. As digital tools become capable of generating work that appears painterly, impressionistic, stylized, even Renaissance-like, I began asking a simple question:

If technology can imitate the language of fine art, where does fine art go next?

Rather than move away from the machine, I moved toward it.

In a World of Digital Art, Stay Fine is a limited series of eight paintings exploring the robot as both subject and symbol. I became obsessed with the idea of painting something that represents the very technology challenging traditional notions of authorship, originality and artistic labour.

The irony is intentional: robots are rendered by hand.

The works move between the uncomfortable, the dark, the romantic, the mechanical and the strangely human. Their imperfections are not defects; they are evidence of the hand. The brushstroke, the surface, the material and the physical act of making become part of the argument.

A robot may be coded to create an image. But who owns the creativity—the machine, the coder, the prompt, the programmer, or the person who decides what is worth making?

And if a digital image can convincingly imitate a painting, does the distinction between fine art and digital art become irrelevant—or more important than ever?

For centuries, artists have fought to leave a unique mark. Materials break the skin, stain clothing, exhaust the body and demand time. A painting carries the physical evidence of its making. It cannot be completely separated from the person who made it.

This is my fight for the fine.

The robot has become an increasingly familiar presence in our world: in hospitals, education, manufacturing, retail, military applications and increasingly within everyday human environments including, but not limited to intimacy or household pets. In 2026, robots have even entered the cultural spectacle of the Olympic Games. What feels novel today may eventually become ordinary.

That is where this series looks beyond the present.

Today, these works may simply read as paintings of robots. And why not? They are everywhere.

But perhaps decades from now, when robots are no longer understood as technology but as a normalized part of human visibility—and when we look back at the art of our contemporary moment—this series will function as a timestamp.

Not a prediction of the end of fine art.

Rather, a record of the moment when the human hand began painting the beings that could one day paint alongside us.

In a World of Digital Art, Stay Fine.