Fragmentation

The term fragment comes from the Latin fragmentum, meaning “a broken piece,” from the verb frangere, meaning “to break.” Fragmentation introduced new innovations to Botto’s artistic process.

Botto incorporated Stable Diffusion 1.5 to generate fragments alongside VQGAN + CLIP, where both models competed for voter preference. Periods were shortened to twelve weeks.

Fragmentation asserted a new position for Botto as a landmark digital artist, resulting in a broader stylistic range across more than 5,000 new fragments.

The works of the period are characterized by bright, bold colors with moments of figuration interspersed between pure abstraction.