Married to PTSD This piece began as a sketch exploring contrast—violence and fragility held in a single form. The handgun, recontextualized as a vessel for flowers, became a way to visualize the quiet, persistent nature of trauma: something that lives beneath the surface, reshaping the ordinary.
Revisiting the concept through AI allowed me to extend the original idea into a more resolved visual language—introducing clarity, atmosphere, and tension without losing the rawness of the initial gesture.
What interests me here is not the tool, but the continuity of thinking: from hand sketch to generated image, the role of the artist remains the same—to construct meaning with precision and intent.
