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*Here is For No One laid out on the floor*

*Here is For No One aluminum frame attached and up on the easels.* Size 48″ in length.

This artwork’s project has been slowed for different reasons. I have all the music cut, sanded and prime, but the painting is not complete. I did complete my second attempt using ChatGPT to compose a poem based on the lyrics from the music. Once again, I created three different poetic versions. Because of the small size of this artwork, my plan was to pick the best four-line stanza. For the third version I mixed up the lyrics to see if that had any effect. A stanza from this third poem and one from the first version that made the finals. My final choice was made based on the quality of the rhythm, the flow, and the meaning of the stanza. I wanted a poem to best represent the same feelings as Paul McCartney’s original lyrics.

First Version, and final choice, from ChatGPT’s poem from the lyrics:
“No signs of affection behind her tears,
Cried for no one, lost in her fears,
A love meant to endure through the years,
But alas, it faded, leaving you in tears.”
-ChatGPT

Here is the runner-up version from the third version of ChatGPT’s poem based on the song’s lyrics:

“In her vacant eyes, a love once a blaze,
Now nothingness lingers, in sorrow’s haze.
Cried for no one, a love that slipped through,
A love that should have lasted, forever true.”
-ChatGPT

I then printed those lyrics on the loose piece of canvas shown in the middle of the artwork. Unlike the previous ChatGPT lyrics with the artwork, One, this time I painted over the words. Using a removal technique I develop, I pressed masking tape against the fresh top layer of paint, which when pulled away the paint in the effort to reveal the poem’s words. My technique worked, but the results did not. My color choices and the over painting made it impossible to read any of ChatGPT’s poem. If I looked closely, I could make out some of the lettering, but none of the words. After a considerable self-debate I painted over the canvas. The image below is what I am going with. No chance this image has any “perceptual equivalence” (video explanation link) just my un-graffiti wall imitation of a ChatGPT generated poem from the lyrics of Paul McCartney that can actually be read.