Reliefs based on the statistical landscape generated by an AI engaged in the task of visual interpretation. The AI analyses a dataset of images in order to identify and differentiate between different people, animals and objects. The process the model employs as it goes about the task of image classification is captured in the artwork. 

The landscape-like 3D graph seen on the surface has been generated from the model’s performance. Where the model is unsuccessful in interpreting images the loss is high, producing a mountain. Where it’s successful a valley appears. This landscape is a frozen moment-in-process in the task of visual perception. It is realised as a CNC-carved relief in polyurethane, an expressionist composition beneath a reflective surface layer.

It is said that the encroachment of machine learning into the classification of reality generates a landscape from which we are alienated - it fails to capture the world we live in on our own terms. The artwork makes visible a statistical landscape which is usually invisible, presenting it in a form where we can engage our own impulse to classify and see for ourselves.