Superintelligence

Medium: Acrylic on canvas | Dimensions: 6 ft × 3 ft

It began during a late-night conversation about artificial intelligence, one of those topics everyone claims to grasp. I asked what really powers a system that can write, translate, and improvise. The answer landed was simple : “Underneath, it’s just a matrix of random numbers.”

That line revealed a secret, and I wanted to see it. So I painted the numbers, “model weights,” the mathematical DNA of large language models. Each mark is a tiny coefficient: meaningless alone, miraculous in concert. From a distance the piece reads as a soft colour field; step closer and the neat rows of numbers come into focus, revealing the math behind the magic.

This piece is an invitation to stand inside the question: How does meaning arise from pure arithmetic? Painting became my way into that conversation, an artist’s dialog with code.