Jim Gunnell

A few years ago, Jim (a storyteller and artist) became obsessed with collecting and curating thousands of images—from digital representations of artwork he created, to photographs he took or found online, to AI-generated depictions of the ideas in his head. He discovered that in the vast universe of electronic bits and bytes, he could find almost every fragment of memorabilia he needed to convey a story within and around the subject matter he chose. Jim cuts, manipulates, and pastes images electronically into a cohesive narrative. The work is tedious and time-consuming. Researching, locating, creating, and curating the right images often feels like untangling DNA with chopsticks. …