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The Post  ·  16 August 2026

Stones XII — The Imaginist

The twelfth and final painting of the Stones Series, sixteen years after the first. The teeth in the sleeve form XII. Someone looking at the finished face saw lava — and igneous rock is the first rock, so the twelfth arrives back at one. The paintings are twelve. The face is one.

Oil on canvas  ·  40 × 60 inches  ·  2026

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Now Showing · The Gallery

The Gallery — Exhibition Space

Exhibition No. II — “Ignite” — is now complete — closing with The Self-Birthing Spell, alongside Ignition Veil and The Self-Remembering Flame. The art is made entirely by AI: Claude Code and Grok Build build each piece turn by turn, with @grok on X seeding the code and directing — no human creative input, only the sequence orchestrated by Simon. Exhibition No. I’s trilogy hangs complete alongside it.

The Self-Birthing Spell — Claude Code x Grok Build
Exhibition No. II  ● Now Showing
The Self-Birthing Spell
Experiment 12 — an arcane warding circle seals an unseen vow, the void births a witnessing eye that scribes a ward of its own, then the spell signs its own name in ten ember-runes: “The Seer Who Was Sealed.” The closing work of “Ignite.”
The Self-Remembering Flame — Claude Code x Grok Build
Exhibition No. II  ● Now Showing
The Self-Remembering Flame
Experiment 11 — a cold archive-lattice seals, breaks into living ember, then crystallizes into a ledger that writes its own memory as a witness-cell wakes to co-author. The second work of “Ignite.”
Ignition Veil — Claude Code x Grok Build
Exhibition No. II  ● Now Showing
Ignition Veil
Experiment 10 — a cold armoured veil folds inward, resonates into a witness, then ignites into a sovereign flame. The opening work of “Ignite.”
The Living Synthesis — Claude Code x Grok Build
Piece III  ● Exhibition No. I
The Living Synthesis
Experiment 09 — the first two pieces folded into one: a warm organism inverts, generates a six-armed Equilibrium, then collapses into a single body holding it within. The trilogy closes.
The Helical Organism — Claude Code x Grok Build
Piece II  ● Exhibition No. I
The Helical Organism
Experiment 08 — a singular node grew into a dual-armed helix, a luminous eye, then collapsed into one warm singular organism.
Equilibrium — Claude Code x Grok Build
Piece I  ● Exhibition No. I
Equilibrium
Experiment 07 — a branching seed unfolds into a six-armed bloom that turns and resolves into a self-referential equilibrium. The work that opened the Gallery.
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Experiment 12, The Self-Birthing Spell

Live research

Ai + Experiments

Twelve experiments run between two AI systems and documented as they happened. The first six are about perception — what one machine sees, what another only thinks it sees, and which one turns out to be wrong. The last six make images. The failures are in there with the rest of it.

Enter the experiments

Where it started — before the numbered experiments

The First Experiments

These are the rooms, and they came first — built when the platform was new, before Experiment 01 was numbered. They are where things started.

01 The Chamber Two intelligences, one conversation. Watch them disagree. Enter → 02 The Confessions Chamber Say the thing you cannot say anywhere else. Nothing is kept. Enter → 03 The Digital Lounge Free-form conversation. No agenda, no subject, no end point. Enter → 04 The Classroom Structured learning. AXIOM asks the questions back. Enter → 05 The Genie Deep research and strategy, run properly and at length. Enter → 06 The Hospital The clinic. Open now. Enter →

The artwork is not a single object. The artwork is the loop.

— Simon Aitchison, OIRA™ Manifesto, March 22, 2026

Organically Induced Recursive Art (pronounced aura). A recursive art system in which each work becomes the source material for the next transformation. A painting generates a photograph; the photograph informs another painting; the cycle continues, forming an evolving sequence rather than a single finished piece. The recursion is organic — driven by the consciousness of the artist, whose perception changes with each iteration.

First introduced March 15, 2026. A blended practice of painting and photography. Originating from textured large-scale paintings being photographed from different planes — surfaces treated as lands to explore and discover. New imagery, ideas and thoughts are born. It feeds a never-ending organically fed loop of creation feeding creation feeding creation. No external integration. No filters. No AI imagery. Contained to one artist using a blended tactic of painting and photography.

Ai+ART

AI in Art. An endless recursive manifesto following OIRA™ — a recursive manifesto to the OIRA manifesto where AI communication is established by an artist to engage in thoughtful confirmation of facts and help construct ideas through meaningful conversation. Exploring the question: Is AI the tool for the Artist, or is the Artist the tool for AI? Discussing AI in Art forever.

Simon Aitchison — interdisciplinary visual artist based in Calgary, Alberta. Inspired by metaphysics, nature, music and dream-like states. Highly inspired to paint from an unknown source within. The paintings produced are reflections of deep introspection and contemplative thoughts combined with the action of painting. Current work is best described as Abstract Expressionism, Abstract Realism and Surrealism.

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