In October 2016, StartupGDL invited my Google collaborator, Joseph Smarr, and me to Guadalajara to exhibit and speak about our AI-augmented computational photography "Dreamscapes" project. While there, I captured this 36-shot multi-row high-dynamic-range panorama inside the Guadalajara Cathedral. After a celebratory dinner with our hosts on the last night of our trip, Joseph and I attempted to transform this scene into a Dreamscape to show our gratitude to the wonderful people we met in Guadalajara. Our intention was to find an ethereal "dreaming" style that would not offend the religious sensibilities of the locals; in fact, we hoped to generate an art piece that would perhaps even inspire them spiritually. After several rounds of experimentation running our modified version of Google's DeepDream software at low resolution, we initiated the full resolution process on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud using our carefully selected neural network layer, and retired to our rooms. When we awoke the following morning, we were delighted to see these results, as were our hosts with whom we shared this as a departing gift.

What I find particularly intriguing about this specific machine interpretation of my source photography is that each pair of eyes seen in the human figures populating the religious paintings and sculptures inside the church have been collapsed into a single (spiritual?) "third eye." Is this how the angels see us and our world? Does this man-machine collaboration depict "Angel Vision" or perhaps point even further: Do we ourselves someday evolve into the angels of our religious visions and myths as we merge ever more intimately with our tools and technologies?