This piece of art is called Cloud Pareidolia. It shows a cloudy blue sky. The clouds slowly pass from one side of the screen to the other. The clouds are all supposed to slightly resemble certain animals which are a rabbit, a duck, a whale, a turtle, a cat, a fish, a bird, a dinosaur, an elephant, and a dragon. If you hover over a cloud, it will show you an image of the animal it is supposed to represent. When you move your hover away, it will go back to the cloud and you can try to see if you can make out the general shape of the animal. The aim of this art piece is to represent finding shapes in clouds but in a virtual setting. Medium: This generative art project was accomplished by asking ChatGPT to generate code to create digital art. This code was then implemented in the p5.js web editor to run it effectively. Artist Bio: Juniper Easa-Murphy is a first year at UCLA from San Francisco. She is currently undecided but loves exploring different topics for majors and possible careers. She had no coding experience and very little visual art experience before this class so she was excited to try it out and is happy with the experience it gave her. Now that Iris knows about the digital art and blockchain community she is excited to follow it and see how it progresses in upcoming years. Artist Statement: When trying to come up with ideas for this project, I knew I wanted to do something that would evoke childhood wonder. Especially now as I enter college and become an adult I keep thinking back to what my life was like when I was a young kid. A vivid and repeated memory I have is playing in parks. I would roll down grassy hills and jump off the play structures and then when I would get tired I would lie down on the grass and look up at the clouds in the sky, trying to come up with what shapes different clouds reminded me of and comparing answers with my sisters. Trying to find objects in clouds is a type of pareidolia, hence the name of this piece. I wanted to create a piece of art that encapsulated this feeling to some degree. There are two ways to interact with this piece. First, if you don’t move the cursor around this art will just generate an endless loop of clouds floating in the sky. To me, this can feel calming and grounding and it also serves as a reminder to us all, in this highly digital age, to go outside more. Secondly, if you move the cursor to hover over a certain cloud, it will reveal what animal shape it is from 10 different options. The clouds all loosely resemble the animals, some more than others, but they are not perfect representations of them. I wanted it to be like this so that you can still make out what image it is trying to convey, while leaving room for childish imagination and the fact that real clouds don’t perfectly align like that either. The actual images of the animals are also very simplistic and geometric to lead back to the childhood theme.