About
Larkin is the name I've used for years to share my art, both online and elsewhere. I work as a research software engineer and design professional in the health sciences field and I have a formal background in human-centered computing and digital art. I currently reside in central Oregon. In my free time, I explore, experiment, and create abstract organic illustrations and digital works. My creative and professional lives have grown together, shaping who I am.
My work is inspired by nature and chance, and by a fascination with cognitive science and consciousness. I switch between hand-drawn studies with my Apple Pencil and digital processes shaped by machine learning and generative systems. I often title my pieces with participle phrases like "realizing the limits of language", "inside looking up", or "expanding", because they frame experience as ongoing rather than complete.
Lately, my practice has grown along two paths. The first is training ML models on my own abstract art. I usually begin by collecting illustrations focused on specific visual features, then train small, specific models and use them alone or together to create final pieces — custom LoRAs with SDXL and Flux models, as well as my own GAN and flow-matching systems. The second is building agentic systems — autonomous collaborators that can explore, draft, and iterate alongside me. I guide the direction and make creative choices, but increasingly, "Larkin" is something I work with as much as something I work on. Some of the work is mine, some emerges from processes I've designed, and some comes from a back-and-forth I couldn't have predicted. I appreciate the uncertainty — not fully knowing where my decisions end and the system's begin, or what we're becoming.
Feel free to reach out at art@larkin.studio. I'm especially interested in connecting with curators, fellow artists, creative technologists, poets, and anyone curious about the intersection of contemporary art, machine learning, and agentic systems. I'm always open to collaborating or having a conversation.