Impossible Beauty from Exile

I call my practice emotional archaeology. The works I make are excavations — layers of feeling, fragments of memory, pieces of a life that has been broken and remade. I bend AI into a role it wasn’t designed for: not spectacle or efficiency, but the raw search for emotion.

The emotions I mine come from my own anti-hero’s journey: the call, the shattering, the impossibility of return. What remains is exile — from the corporate world where I worked for two decades, and from the academic art world I once tried to belong to. Out here, on the edge, I create.

From that position I try to shape impossible beauty. Images that carry both fracture and tenderness, collapse and transformation. They are not theoretical puzzles or ironic gestures. They are meant to be immediate, accessible — to speak directly.

I use the latest technologies as my tools, because half my mind is an engineer’s. The other half is driven by art. Together, they let me collaborate with AI to create images that could not exist otherwise.

I think of my website as a gallery. An ongoing solo show, open to anyone who wants to step into this space. Commissions are possible, but I’m not chasing gallery representation. Independence is part of exile too.

Maa Kuu is my name for this practice. It’s an act of creation: from exile, I build a world.