I feel that Will Lakemans exhibition represents the theme of Nostalgia As he explained that when he was creating the images he made them from his memory and his senses. He said that he had a conative issue described synaesthesia (a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.) this makes him get his senses mixed up when he gets over stimulated due to him having autism, This can be seen in his images as they are very bright and unrealistic compared to other photographers. He did this by using Artificial intelligence to give them more of an imaginative and surreal look to them. His AI images are repsentative of dreams as they don’t make much sense to the naked eye without the context behind them. Will talked about how he always wanted to turn his dreams into a visual experience for his audience, as he didn’t like listening to other peoples dreams due to them not making much sense and being boring.

The image above is created by Wills memory of there being a small and dirty pool that customers had to step in to clean their feet before they went into the pool. He created this by using AI to get a realistic look into what he remembered. I thought this image really linked back to his them of nostalgia as he described to us that when he talked to other people about this small pool they remembered it to be brown due to all of the dirt that people bring in with their feet, While having this knowledge Will still decided to give the pool a purple tint to it in this image as he wanted to recreate the way that he remembered it.

Over all I enjoyed his exhibition as I haven’t seen many pictures created by AI. I also Liked how they all where made from his memory even though they are not all repsentative of what Fort regent was actually like when he was younger but yet gives him a nostalgic feeling.