Welcome to Dreamscapes (Retrospective), a curated collection of authenticated digital artworks on the blockchain.

Throughout my decades-long quest to more effectively convey the power of special places and fully express the experiences I was having in the presence of great landscapes and cityscapes, I've explored several techniques and technologies. Recognizing that these scenes moved me not just visually but also viscerally and cognitively, I came to realize that my photographs would need to do the same to be successful.

Diving deeply into the art history of the 400-year tradition of landscape painting in the Western world, I saw that the most captivating paintings were those that were thoughtfully composed and especially vibrant, immersive, and detailed. My inability to capture those qualities with a single exposure led me to devise my "XYZ" computational photography technique, which merges an array of dozens of individual photographs into a giant luminous panorama. This technique enabled me to finally create photo-based images of special places that could move people viscerally.

After four years of developing this technique, in the summer of 2015 Google released the open source code behind "DeepDream," a computer vision program evolved from their engineers' desire to visualize the inner workings of Deep Learning artificial intelligence models. DeepDream quickly went viral with many people using the software as a novelty, typically to transform their family photos into psychedelic nightmares. However, I sensed an opportunity to use DeepDream in a more nuanced way to add an expressive–or cognitive–element to my hyperrealistic landscape images. Fortunately, with the help of two brilliant engineers, Joseph Smarr (Google) and Chris Lamb (NVIDIA), in January 2016 a proprietary cloud-based AI customized for my purposes became an important part of my artistic toolset.

Since then I've been exploring the graphic possibilities of Dreamscapes, giant AI-augmented artworks that, I hope, make people feel... and think. This exploration has gone through several phases which include upscaling of details, multi-pass/multi-scale "dreaming," and "refracted" Cubism-inspired dreaming. This retrospective collection provides a carefully curated sampling of these explorations.