Kevin Esherick

From the artist:

I lost my older brother when I was 20. I don’t talk about it much, but I miss him every day. I’m With You is a series of works imagining what life would look like if he were still here, and depicting how, in some ways, he still is.

These works were created by training an AI model on pictures of him, then interrupting the development of each image mid-generation, leaving behind only the hazy imprint of his form. For me, these pieces are reflections on grief and memory, absence and presence, joy and hope. They’re about possibility, what could’ve been, and what lives on.