What is an AI representation? Is it an authentic, original synthesis, a collaboration, a cheap fake? As source material swirls around a creator's mind, is their analog, material-based creation more authentic or original? When does the application of a human produced tool remove 'humanness' from a work of art? Does a paintbrush do such, a camera, a computer, Latent Diffusion?

Simulacrum.001 is the first piece in a series exploring a human x AI integration, referencing the history of classical figuration and generative art.