Alexis Mata is a Mexico City, Mexico-based artist who creates captivating landscape paintings that look like images that have been subject to a glitch.
Mata’s works show detailed desert landscapes featuring rocks, dunes, and various shapes and sizes of cacti that are suddenly distorted or stretched into unrecognizable streams of color.
According to the artist, he aims to explore the human perception of reality and the way our mind plays tricks on us when we watch something for too long.
“The paintings are all about the glitch and the error, when your eyes look too long at the same thing your mind makes the change” Mata shares.
Mata collaborates with artificial intelligence to create his artworks. He makes notes of his experiences related to landscapes and then uses AI software to generate images based on them. Lastly, he reworks and edits these images and then uses them as a reference for his paintings.
“I meticulously document dreams, sensations, and experiences related to landscapes, either in the form of texts, ideas, poems, haikus, photographs, drawings, etc. Once the information has been compiled, I generate a dialogue with the artificial intelligence in which I seek to share and explain situations and self-referential experiences in a limited way,” Mata explains on his website.
Continue scrolling to check out more of Mata’s glitched landscapes below.
