"the way u make me feel is the best part of my life" by Wretched Worm is an AI assisted real digital painting that offers itself up as a serenely decaying impasto plaster surface—its terse materiality puncturing the screens flatness, rendering latent space into solid form, pushing away from image generation AI’s proclivity towards hallucination and wrangling it into objecthood. Wretched Worm’s own cheekily menacing visage sits enmeshed in caked gesso, alongside a dripping abstract tapestry that foregrounds its own realism and offers some insight into the mind of this elusive artist.

Wretched Worm is an artist based in New York City and co-founder of Galerie Yeche Lange. twitter.com/wretched_worm