2023 and ongoing. These paintings are inspired by climate change and the global reliance on fossil fuels. They depict gas stations set in a dramatic moment of the day, as they would be composed in the establishing shot in a movie. The starting images are created by using a text-to-image AI generator. To give a classical finish, the works use intense colour modelling techniques from the base block colour, on top of which I use transparent glazes. I am using this new technology to generate artificial spaces. The AI algorithm produces slick images that I then realised in traditional methods in acrylic media.
![The gas station lay empty. The fluorescent lights still illuminate the need for fuel. In the distance, abandoned cars were discarded as we made our way to the city.](http://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fuel-stop-11-1-1024x570.jpg)
![As new technology came into production, there were fewer of us left to use it. Signs told us how good life can be. “Prove it”, we said.](http://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fuel-stop-03-1-1024x680.jpg)
![We parked a distance from the electric charging station as the provider approved permission to charge. “We need to go, or we will never make it”.](http://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fuel-stop-02-1-1024x690.jpg)
![I coughed. The car is fully charged. The order of a cheeseburger was cold when the unit served it.](http://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/fuel-stop-01-1-1024x649.jpg)
![The car park lay empty. There were more fuel stations than demand.](http://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/fuel-stop-4-small-1024x677.jpg)
![The lights of the power station still shined bright. The compound was closed.](http://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/fuel-stop-5-small-1024x644.jpg)
![Once we were in the city, we refuelled and sat in the warmth of the car heat. Now, all we had to do was decide where to go.](https://stasart.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fuel-stop-08-small-1024x825.jpg)