Kristen Sommers

I am an artist. 

I believe sharing art is powerful and creating art is worthwhile. I believe art is made by humans, for humans.

As an artist, I will never use AI as an artificial replacement for creating authentic human art from my authentic human experience.

I will embrace the messiness of human-made art and revel in the weirdness that makes existence interesting.

I will make art because I want to and because I love it.

I will not accuse other artists of using AI just because I don’t like their work.

I will simply avoid art that is poorly made, formulaic, inauthentic, plagiarized, thoughtless, unoriginal, and displeasing to me, whether it was made with AI or not.

I will always wholeheartedly support and promote the art and the artists that I love.

I will not respond to AI-related criticisms of my own work with process videos that will train the robots to better replace me. I will ignore the trolls and focus solely on my art and my community.

I will make the best and most authentic art I can make.

I will live my life to the fullest and remind myself that social media isn’t real life.

I will love myself for being human, for being an artist, for being me. I will remember that it’s enough to try and to laugh and to love.

I will not confuse content for art.

I will not let the internet or any algorithms dictate what I can and cannot make.

I will love the art that I love because I love it. My opinions don’t need the validation of strangers.

I will never stop learning and never stop trying new things.

I love making art.

I love making connections.

I love being human.

And I will never let anyone convince me that art—real art, good art—belongs to anyone other than us, the messy, glorious, beautiful humans who need it to survive.

Stay excellent,
Kristen Sommers
XOXO