How AI became part of my process?

This is about why AI became part of my process — and why, after years of painting murals and doing street art, it changed nothing about who I am as an artist.

I started drawing as a kid, went through art school, and then — for reasons that made sense at the time — got a civil engineering degree instead of a fine arts one. It shows in my work. Everything I make is built almost like a technical drawing, every element in its place.

My portfolio is full of murals, canvases, sculpture, AR — you can see it all on this site. None of that has stopped. I'm still painting walls, still showing work, still building things with my hands. AI didn't replace any of it.

What it did was solve a very specific problem. SOMARI Universe is a sci-fi world I've been building since 2018 — different physics, characters who can reshape their own bodies, a whole mythology. One 2D sketch used to take me around two weeks. Modeling full 3D scenes for an animation, alone, without a team, was simply not realistic. Ideas were arriving faster than I could ever produce them by hand, and that gap was the most frustrating part of the whole project.

AI closed that gap. Not by inventing anything for me — it has no idea what SOMARI Universe is until I show it. My style is unusual enough that describing it in words never worked; I had to feed it my own images before it could even get close. It took months to get results I was actually happy with. What it gave me, in the end, was speed: the ability to finally show people what used to live only in my head, instead of explaining it to them in words.

I think of it the same way I think of a camera or a 3D printer — a tool that extends what one person can physically do alone. It didn't change my characters, my palette, or the questions I keep circling back to about nature, technology, and what it means to be alive in a world we've built machines into. It just means the universe moves at the speed my ideas do, finally.