Katerina Lapskaya

Your background is in project management and marketing. How has this experience influenced your approach to creating art?

I see it as a beautiful balance: prioritizing inspiration and intuitive creative processes, but being able to properly organize such processes, being selective about large amounts of information to define my direction, working with that information, possessing systemic thinking and maintaining a structured vision of the project. I analyzing and choosing the best tools for learning and creating art works. Knowing the basic laws of marketing is also valuable. Over time, perhaps, such skills will help me decide about how best to implement the results of my creativity on the market.

What initially sparked your interest in using AI as a creative tool, and how did your project begin in 2024?

For many years, I loved traditional and modern painting styles and was interested in architecture. In 2024, in addition to my main job, I was offered cooperation with a company that is engaged in the construction and design of commercial properties. As a project manager, I helped create a restaurant project for a beautiful resort area. I saw how my partner experimented with interior visualizations using AI programs, I was amazed by the good results and such possibilities. This is where my interest in neural networks began. And I created a separate project where I can come up with art works for the digital space and interior design space.

P.S. It’s funny and interesting, but as a child, a kaleidoscope was one of my favorite toys. I recently found out that a kaleidoscope is an early prototype of generative art. I admire this fact!:)

Katerina Lapskaya | Pomegranate tree

Many of your works explore time, perception, and awareness. What draws you to these themes?

Probably, every person during their life thinks about such deep topics, about the flow of life. I find the topic of life perception interesting, how sometimes the perception of certain moments changes. How we feel what is happening in life with our head, body, soul. Now I have started to study some philosophical works on the topic of Time. As a child, my dad taught me deep analysis, philosophical reflections. I’m very glad that I have this inside. Also, recently I have been interested in some spiritual practices. All this helps me to expand my perception of art and creativity, myself in art. This perception becomes multi-sided.

How do you develop the concepts and prompts behind your AI-generated works? Do you follow a certain structure or is it more intuitive?

I use different options. If it’s a custom art work, then I create a prompt based on the client’s wishes, I can supplement it with my creative ideas. Or I take as a basis the conditions of the interior space or digital space, so that the creative work, for example, a painting, its texture and color expression look harmonious in this space. If it is my personal art work, I choose intuitively, what attracts me, what I want to embody. For example, I love abstraction, I can put a special meaning into it. Reflect this meaning in texture, colors and form. One of the most impressive experiments for me is the creation of an abstract mosaic picture.

Katerina Lapskaya | Pomegranates

Can you describe your process of translating inspiration from nature and interiors into abstract, digital compositions?

I’m currently working on a project and will spend part of the summer in the mountains of the Altay region. This nature inspires and fascinates me now. There is such a beautiful pine forest here, some trees are several hundred years old. There is a wide turquoise river, high mountains with delicate peaks. Some places here are considered sacred and difficult for visiting. If these landscapes are transformed into digital compositions, the shapes of the elements can depict the power and density of the dark colors of the mountains. The lines and expression of color can express the dynamics of the fast flow of the river. Glow and light can show soft sunlight, the glow of greenery (ferns, flowering trees, grasses). With color and volume, I would reflect the strong energy of these places. Not only the visual component is important to me in my art works, I put energy into them. It is always about energy and feelings.

How do you see the role of an AI artist evolving in the next few years, especially in design and interior decoration?

This question is fascinating! Trends are developing when AI is integrated into the design process and other creative processes. And here, in my opinion, the big advantage is the space of options and speed: the implementation of creativity, the speed of processing large amounts of data, the speed of studying new trends in the market, the speed of issuing proposals. For example, for interior design, if an AI artist correctly sets the task for the neuronet, then in a fairly short time he will receive a large number of visualizations for a specific space and people will be able to see and compare versions. But I would like to hope that on the flow of AI development, the role of a person will still remain important. A person who creates a prompts is a unique author, he must have a certain vision, knowledge in his field and a deep understanding of what he wants to create in order to get the best possible result. This is deep mental work.

Since AI can provide AI artists with powerful analytical tools and new approaches, allowing them to focus on higher-level creative tasks, I believe this will lead to the emergence of new genres and styles that couldn’t exist without the participation of digital technologies. Collaborations between AI artists and artists from other fields are also possible. Artists will use AI as a tool for inspiration, idea generation, or analysis of works, creating unique joint projects that combine human creativity and the capabilities of digital technologies.

Katerina Lapskaya | Depth time

What message or emotional experience do you hope the viewer takes away from your art?

One of the world’s great film directors said that the true value of an art works is in the sincerity of the author. Sincerity in creativity is very important to me. By expanding my own understanding of creativity, consciousness and existence, I try to bring depth and meaning to my art works. In my heart, I hope that this inspires viewers to make interesting discoveries for themselves, to question and reflect on their own experiences and awareness, to feel new things. It’s magical that art work can be a journey into the unconscious. This many-sided perception enriches my artistic process and the experience of my audience, creating a special dialogue that goes beyond the visual.