  I intend to make a scientific contribution of my subjective experience as a
single unit of self-described ``artist'' leveraging artificial intelligence as
an assistive visual creation tool, in the hopes that it may provide some
inspiration or deeper meaning for fellow artists and computer scientists in
this medium. First, I will provide some background on my personal history thus
far as an artist. Neither artist nor scientist can exist in a vaccuum, so I
then will provide some (albeit a non-exhaustive list of) related work that has
helped me contextualize my own work and thinking in this area. I often consider
my methods in the creative process chronologically, so I have divided that
section according to the loose structure of my artistic workflow. These
foundations provide a fertile grounding for discussion around topics of subject
matter, reception, community, and ethics. I then conclude with some ideas for
future work in the realms of theory of authorship, explainability tooling, and
research framing.
