Jamie Whyte

Weird reminder of why SUCKS. An author had it spit this out and wanted it in their book. The publisher asked me to ‘work it up’ into something that wasn’t total nonsense - swipe along to see what I made. It was a weird and ghoulish illustration but quite fun to do. This is happening more and more though: people are asking so-called ‘AI’ to make artwork, it produces total slop, and only THEN do they ask an artist. Maybe just skip the polluting, water-sucking, IP-thieving, billionaire-boosting first step and just ASK A FKING ARTIST.

On Land Day, 30th of March 2025, I went on a foraging walk that connected indigenous plant use from Bristol to Palestine and Lebanon, organised by the amazing multidisciplinary Land Stories team, .food .naz and . It was led by the incredibly interesting and knowledgeable .weeds and .forager. Had some beautiful Lebanese food, a gorgeous sunny walk, learned the significance and flavour of many plants that are indigenous to both the UK and Palestine and Lebanon, and met some lovely people. 🇵🇸