A steady creative day. Started by working on a photo restoration of badly deteriorated old photo which is very pink with age and badly sun-stained. I tried AI solutions experimentally, but these were terrible. Any AI restoration or 'improvement' of a face gets it laughably wrong, the likeness changes to that of a stranger. AI 'restoration' can work wonders for animals and trees and other things that can be 'anything'; like the work of a bad painter, but that's the best it can do. Like a human, it would need knowledge of the likeness, of the person to restore. Still, I have a few creative ideas that AI could be useful for.
After that, I entered a small weekend-long exhibition which will take place in Tarporley in August. I'll show The Resurrection of Napoleon Bonaparte, and The Love Affair. We need to supply table easels, so I made a large one today:
This took most of the day but it works wonderfully. The vertical arms are about 42cm, so it's pretty large, and may be useful for other displays in future.
After that, the start of a new tune for the new album. My solution to the structure problem is to break it into three sets of three songs, so I've started work on one called 'Another Dead Morning', which uses a strangely happy variation of the 'Fear is Everywhere' melody, thus I can have variety and unity.
