Brendan O'Connell

artist Featured in New Yorker, Time, The Colbert Report, CBS Sunday morning…exploring ai vs artist

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dreaming under a live oak

just finished

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It was fine
So I ruined it

See where it lands in bio

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Part 4-5— Live Oak At some point, the painting stops asking questions
and starts holding them.
Green isn’t describing a tree anymore.
It’s holding memory, weather, and time in the same breath.
This isn’t the finish.
Green stops being a color and becomes a condition

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Here I dive deeper into green--not just as a color but as a way of to keep the painting from collapsing into a single moment. Green slows things down, lets the memory stay layered and holds the tension without forcing resolution.

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This is where the painting tightens when it risks becoming too literal

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In it

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Photographs give me information.

Memory give me permission

Green helps bridge the two.
It lets structure stay present without forcing it.

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This painting uses a couple of photographs as source, but they come from my time spent with and climbing trees in St. Augustine.

I'm not trying to recreate a place

I'm trying to stay close to how those trees feel--their weight, their patience, the patterned shade they create.

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silence, narrated

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Working.

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silence, narrated

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mixing blue

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mixing blue

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You own 4 fancy sketchbooks.

But every idea ends up on junk mail or cardboard.

You built the perfect brush-cleaning station.

But your best brush is crusted in a coffee mug.

You bought 3 tape measures.

But still can't find one when you need it.

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behind the scenes studio

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seamus part two

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seamus part two

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Most people using AI are doing it wrong.

They treat it like Google.

But the magic happens when you give it your full context.

Treat AI like a teammate — it remembers, analyzes, suggests.

Start now or fall behind fast.

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seamus heaney part one