The World is Alive with Being: AI Art Music Video With an Animist View
Animism is the worldview that everything is alive, interconnected, and worthy of respect. Walking in nature with this perspective, you may feel the trees breathing with you, the stones holding memory, the stream carrying song, and even the ground beneath your feet pulsing with life. This is the feeling that inspired my latest AI Art Music video, Alive With Being. When I walk in the forest, I often sense that I am not alone. The air itself seems to shimmer with presence, as if every leaf, bird, and ripple of water is aware of me, and I of it. This is the animist view of the world: that all things—plants, animals, rivers, mountains, even weather and places—carry spirit. It is not a metaphor but a lived experience, a way of perceiving the world as ensouled. In this view, humans are not separate or superior; we are one kind of person…
Life Is a Circus – A Song Born by the Stream
A surreal satirical song born by a rainforest stream, Life is a Circus reflects on the absurdity of modern politics and the soul’s longing for truth beyond illusion.
My Journey of Autistic Self-Discovery Expressed in a Surreal Music Video
My AI art music video below, set to a song about a late-diagnosed autistic discovering their neurodivergence, illustrates the first chapter of my book Psychemagination: Into the Underworld — where myth, art, and introspection meet, not only to tell my story but also to help you find your own way into discovering who you really are. But the Psychemagination story doesn’t begin—or end—with the book. Psychemagination is a living creative exploration, a multi-modal journey into the depths of self through myth, introspection, and art. It takes form as prose, poetry, visual storytelling, and AI-generated music videos. Not all of it fits between the pages. Some of it sings. Some of it dances. Some of it flickers across the screen in images that speak where words fall silent. The story first emerged two years ago as a series of videos set to my husband’s music. Those early pieces were heartfelt, but…
Begin the Journey: Into the Depths and Heights of Being
The journey begins. The short work of videoart below illustrates the inciting incident for my book ‘Psychemagination: Into the Underworld,’ the moment when my sister suggested that our whole family was autistic. Set to an original song and visionary AI art, it invites you to follow the Psychemagination series – illustrated books and videos about a contemplative, neuro-affirming path of healing and transformation—using the expressive arts, imaginative meditation, and modern psychological insight. But Psychemagination isn’t just a book series—it’s a personal and universal journey of exploration of our psyche through the expressive arts. It’s looking into ourselves and expressing what we find through writing, art, music and dance. The act of putting our inner world outside ourselves helps us to process what we find. The Psychemagination books combine my story, written in lyrical prose, and my art, plus introspective art exercises for you, so you can also take a journey…
All Is Stillness – A Video Song Born from Meditation
A couple of years ago, I used animated AI art to illustrate a poem about meditation I wrote called All Is Stillness—a quiet reflection on the nature of thought and the spaciousness of mind. At the time, the tools available for AI-generated art and video were limited compared to the capabilities of AI generators today. The result was meaningful – at least for me – but I wished I could do the idea more justice. Now, with the evolution of generative technology, I’ve revisited the piece. This time, I didn’t just illustrate the poem—I turned it into a song. The original video featured my voice reading the words aloud, but the new version carries them in a soft, meditative melody. It’s gentler, more immersive, and far closer to the feeling I wanted to evoke. The lyrics speak to a particular experience in meditation: the moment when thoughts rise and fall…
Navigating Emotions Through Art: A Story of Inner Transformation
Emotions can arrive unannounced—heavy, unnamed and persistent. On one such day, I turned to AI art. Not with a plan, but with a feeling: miserable. That single word became my prompt, and what unfolded surprised me. I didn’t know what I was feeling, not exactly. But as I played with imagery, adjusting prompts and watching the visuals shift, something began to clarify. The process—gentle, intuitive—led me to a word I hadn’t yet named: hopelessness. And with that recognition came a kind of release. As an autistic person, naming emotions can be elusive. But seeing them externalized—on a screen, in symbolic form—allowed me to say hello to the feeling. Not to push it away, but to acknowledge it. And then, with intention, I invited in something else: hope. The transformation wasn’t instant, but it was real. Through visual exploration, I moved from darkness to light, from confusion to clarity. The final…
The Art of Seeing What Drives Us
Have you ever felt the pull of something you can’t name, an undercurrent steering your choices, your words, your moods, long after the moment that first sparked it? That’s the echo of being at work, what drives us without us our knowing. The emotional energy of past events reverberates through your life until you notice it, and choose differently. In my new artwork – see below – I used an AI music generator to turn my poem The Echo of Being into a song, which I illustrated with imagery created with an AI art generator and then turned into video. In this piece I ask: “Do you sense the echo of being reverberating through time?Past actions following us through life,And propelling us into the future,Their emotional energy remaining,Like ghosts of possibilities.” Those lines point to a simple truth: none of us emerges from childhood untouched. Maybe it was a harsh…
Into the Liminal: A Threshold of Light and Spirit
Have you ever stood alone in a forest and felt watched—but not in a fearful way? More like a whisper in the trees, a shimmer in the air, as if something ancient and unseen is aware of your presence? This is the feeling that inspired Into the Liminal: The Realm of the Forest Spirits, my newest Psychemagination video artwork. It’s a deepening of the journey begun in my last piece, which danced with the playful fae of the Australian bush. This time, I wanted to step further into that strange and sacred space where the material world begins to loosen, and what remains is light, movement, and presence. Accompanied by the hauntingly beautiful track “The Winds of Past Regrets” by Kris Newland, this film explores not just spirits of nature, but the energy field they inhabit—and invite us to witness. The creatures here are more abstract, more elusive, and part…
Discovering Introspective AI Art: A Journey of Self-Exploration
Have you ever used art—not to express something to others, but to understand something within yourself? That’s what introspective AI art is all about. It’s a gentle, open-ended practice I’ve been developing over the past year—using AI-generated imagery as a mirror to reflect what’s going on in the psyche. It’s part art-making, part inner work. Sometimes it’s soothing, sometimes unsettling, but it always brings me closer to self-awareness. What Is Introspective AI Art? Introspective AI art is the practice of using generative AI tools like Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion to create visual representations of your inner world. But instead of focusing on aesthetic perfection or audience engagement, the intention is personal insight. You begin with an emotion, memory, question, or life situation. Then you translate that into a prompt—not to make something beautiful (though it often is), but to see yourself more clearly. It’s not therapy. It’s not analysis.…
The Hidden Forest: A Gentle Tribute to the Life Beyond Sight
There’s a kind of magic in the forest that doesn’t show itself to the eye, but can be felt in the body—especially when we walk slowly, quietly, and listen. When I enter the bushland near my home on the south coast of NSW, I don’t just see trees and birds and fungi—I feel a hum beneath it all. A kind of quiet, nurturing aliveness that seems to exist just beyond the visible. It’s as though the forest is full of hidden helpers—tiny beings that keep the energy flowing and the system alive. Not in a literal sense, but in a deeply felt one. That’s what inspired The Hidden Forest, my latest AI-generated music video. Set to Kris Newland’s meditative track Frozen in Time, this short video is a gentle celebration of that unseen world. Cute forest spirits, fungi sprites, glowing birds, curious koalas, and leafy guardians wander through dreamy digital…