Intellectual Baptism
Intellectual Baptism is about the relationship between informational knowledge and spiritual wisdom. It uses text from theories of machine intelligence that states: “There are a plethora of credible scenarios for achieving human-level intelligence in machines. We will evolve and train a system combining massively parallel neural nets with other paradigms to understand language and model knowledge.”
As the type evolves in baptismal waters from left to right, it becomes more abstract and less legible, representing the way spiritual wisdom exists beyond articulation through language. Perhaps this is the truest type of progress: to evolve toward the wisdom of unspoken intuition.
To create this piece, I formed the type in Adobe Illustrator, printed it on watercolor paper, then used watercolor paint for the water texture, and finalized the composition in Photoshop.