Artificial intelligence does not create my inner world of images. But for the first time, it gives me the means to make that world visible.
I completely understand that some people currently struggle with AI-generated images or find it difficult to connect with them on an inner level. Images speak to something deeply personal within us, and resonance cannot be forced.
For me, however, artificial intelligence has become a valuable tool because it enables me to create something I could not realize in any other way. I carry many vivid inner images, insights and inspirations within me. Yet I have neither the artistic skill to draw them myself nor the financial means to fairly compensate an artist for a project of this scale.
At the same time, my Channel and Cross of Explanation give me a deep need to make complex ideas understandable. Gate 43 seeks to recognize an insight and grasp its essential truth. Gate 23 then seeks to distil that insight and express it in a way that allows others to understand it. This is precisely what these images mean to me: they condense something complex into a clear and intuitively accessible visual expression.
I am therefore deeply grateful for AI as a tool. I see it as a kind of crutch—not as a replacement for my own creativity, but as an aid that allows me to express what feels so vivid within my inner world and longs to be brought into the outer world.
The motifs originate in my inner images, my intensive exploration of the Gates and a long process of describing, selecting, discarding and refining. Each image is developed until it conveys the essence of what I want to communicate as clearly as possible.
Creating a single image often takes many hours. It is always both an inner and an outer process: first, I need to understand the essence of what I perceive within myself, and then I have to translate it into a visual language the AI can interpret. These images are not created through a single prompt, nor could the AI produce them in this form on its own. It takes time, patience and many iterations to guide and attune the AI to the atmosphere, symbolism and meaning I want the image to carry. To me, this process is a little like tuning an instrument before playing it. The instrument may help create the sound, but the intention, sensitivity and melody still come from the person playing it.
The images are also only one part of this project. Books will follow, in which I will use language and words to bring my inner images to life in the minds of readers. I am also planning videos that will give these images a voice, explain their symbolism and reveal the deeper connections behind them.
For me, these images are anchors of clarity. What might require many pages of text can be made tangible by a meaningful image in a single moment. The image does not replace the fuller explanation. It captures its essence and opens an intuitive path into it.
I understand and respect that not everyone can or wants to resonate with AI-generated imagery. For me, however, AI is the tool that has enabled me, for the first time, to give visible form to my inner world. Without it, this project would not exist in its present form.
Through it, I can bring into the world something that has been alive within me for a long time—and share it with those who may discover something meaningful for themselves within it.
An Appeal for a Mindful and Open Approach to Art
Like any other tool, artificial intelligence should be used mindfully and responsibly. We can embrace its possibilities without ignoring its wider implications. At the same time, I hope that art will remain diverse—in its forms of expression, its creative processes and the tools people use to bring it into being.
For me, the value of a work is not determined solely by the tool with which it was created. What also matters is how much attention, love, time and inner engagement a person has devoted to it. That energy does not come from the tool. It arises from our living inner being. The tool merely helps it take a visible, audible or tangible form.
To me, authentic self-expression begins with a genuine movement from within. Something wants to express itself because it is alive—not primarily to gain money, fame, recognition or attention, but simply because it longs to enter the world.
I therefore ask less: “Which tool was used to create this work?” Instead, I ask: “What moved this person at the deepest level?”
Does the work arise from that profound ground of the soul from which an honest creative impulse emerges? Or is the urge driven mainly by a disconnected need for validation, visibility or external worth?
This is how I personally assess the authenticity of creative expression: not solely by the tool that was used, but by the inner motivation from which it arose. Technology may help shape the form, but the deepest source of a work remains human.
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