Fourth Honorable Mention: "Neon Zen" by @ARTAVOS "To do something with very clear linework is always harder to mess around with in AI and I think artavos did turn the past into the future very well here. Paid hommage to the original artist." mentions @RikOostenbroek @edouard also explains his point of view "This work compellingly transports Utagawa Hiroshige into contemporary Japan. Preserving the graphic language of the original ukiyo-e print, the piece replaces the original landscape with a dense cityscape of illuminated skyscrapers and elevated highways, with Mount Fuji still present in the distance. This shift in subject matter reveals how Hiroshige’s visual language could very well fit into contemporary Japanese illustration. Once the setting becomes contemporary, the flat color planes, sharp contours, and stylized perspective no longer appear distant. By situating Hiroshige’s style in the present, it invites us to reconsider ancient printmaking not as a remote aesthetic tradition, but as part of a continuous visual culture: what changes is not the language, but the time in which it speaks." 🧵 10/22