beef brothkos
output collage assembled by Pindar Van Arman
beef brothkos, known by many as “beef fucking brothko,” was die’s first generative ai project. in adherence with the motto “meat in the end,” die chewed up 25 rothkos and turned them into 60/40 ground round acrylic paintings. canvases and paint bleeding like carrion in a basement in indiana. something rothko would have been proud of.
he worked to train an AI model to paint using the techniques he employed; the same flaying of carcass and application of flies. this became 666 unique digital versions of the 25 original paintings. the reveal of the project took place at the fully fuckable flea market at glitch gallery in marfa, texas in collaboration with transient labs.
“there is no abstract. or figurative. or method. or revolution. or artists or collectors for that matter. and most of what we make or acquire will be mercifully forgotten in the puncture holes distributed by dull bayonets from a war that was never fought. buried in a sea of premium pornography or suffocated by the listless novocaine drip leaking from an unhealing hangnail. but there is meat. and flies. there is always meat. there is that. and the flies that satisfy their carnal urges in the pulverized existence of a beast born to feed and bleed. these strokes document the joyful moments in the slaughterhouse. the routine passings. the hooves and snouts and skin and bones and cherished memories becoming mere runoff. swept into the drains to lubricate the purposeless gears again. there is comfort in creation, even if it is destruction.
one more round. is needed. one final churn. until the next one.
there is happiness in meat. there is that.”
- diewiththemostlikes
