Minne Atairu & Sora

through my work I try to counter story tell my name is Mina I am an interdisciplinary artist I'm from Nigeria and I currently live in New York City most of the works I create are mediated through artificial intelligence I grew up in a patriarchal society and a lot of the visual vocabulary that permeate Nigeria even Nigerians in the diaspora like myself were tuned to this patriarchal agenda in the case of mamy wa a mythological figure in Nigeria my experience with mmy orta was through Nollywood movies they were supernatural horror movies that sought to instill fear about Mommy water I had already created portraits using image generation so when I had the opportunity to use Sora I became very interested in creating the short film she's typically depicted as a light skinned black woman with straight long hair her features are more European than Nigerian which is interesting and then she would typically have light beams emitting from her eyes that's something I really wanted to nail down and as I started exploring in Sora my initial prompts were for IE beams like light shooting out of the figur eyes but over time in refining my prompt Sora started generating other versions of um what the eye could look like right and so one version that struck me was this really bright yellow eyes with eyelashes that were also yellow it was a diversion from my initial prompt but it also embodied what I was looking for I'm not confined to this one idea I just want her to laugh hysterically so I'm going to type laugh hysterically we are all artists I think it's a matter of the access we have to tools access to time to make the work and just access to resources to realize your vision