About my Art.

A Note from Ricardo Merlin Robertson As you travel through the unfolding tapestry of Pachacutiq, please understand that I did not create these creatures for sale. I sculpted them to give physical form to what I see through my mind’s eye—a world born from a vivid and persistent imagination. I am seventy years old, and unlike Meta and the other hungry gannets of society, money is not my purpose. I simply have a story to tell. Just as an artist uses a brush, a sculptor uses clay, or an animator uses a computer, I sometimes work with an AI companion to refine an image and enhance the experience of those entering my world. The imagination, characters, sculptures, philosophy and story remain my own. Recently, Meta fell over its own mouth when it labelled an image developed from my handmade sculpture of Allira merely as “AI content.” The label offered no acknowledgement of the physical sculpture, the years of creative work, or the human imagination from which she emerged. At first, I was angry. Then, as I have done so many times before, I took that anger and turned it into energy. I used it to strengthen the work, preserve its origins and make everything that followed more meaningful.

Allira and all the creatures of Pachacutiq were born beneath my

hands.

AI helped me illuminate the world around them.