Barry Sutton Studio

I began as a photographer long before algorithms entered the studio. I came to photography through drawing—through looking slowly, learning how form, light, and gesture carry meaning. The camera became a way to stay close to culture as it moved: music, youth, style, desire, power. For decades, my work lived there—observing how identity is constructed, performed, and remembered. Photography taught me discipline. It also taught me how much images can carry. Over time, my attention widened. Alongside the image as an object, I became increasingly interested in the systems that shape it: language, myth, repetition, influence, labor. How narratives form—not just in pictures, but across media, politics, and culture. That shift led to projects like Mythologies, which explores how contemporary belief systems—fashion, power, technology, identity—are constructed and sustained through images. The work remains photographic at its core, even as it stretches beyond the traditional boundaries of the medium. AI didn’t arrive as a shortcut. It arrived as a mirror. What drew me in wasn’t image generation, but process—how meaning accumulates, how patterns emerge, how authorship shifts when systems scale faster than intention. Evidence grew from this investigation: a body of work focused not on what images depict, but on how creative decisions form—layer by layer, constraint by constraint—inside both human and machine systems. Con Jobs @conjobslive takes that same lens to political language, treating speech as material—collected, repeated, allowed to compound without interpretation. It isn’t commentary. It’s evidence. Cera @cera_ai works in the opposite direction. It creates space for slowness, clarity, and deliberate creative thought inside increasingly automated systems. Less output. More intention. Across all of this, the question hasn’t changed: How do we stay awake inside systems designed to overwhelm? @BarrySuttonLab is a place to share that inquiry—art, experiments, process notes, and thinking in public. Not finished statements. Not hot takes. Careful work, over time. If you’re interested in photography, AI, authorship, and how meaning survives acceleration—you’re in the right place.

@toadswiback Yeah happy bday man how’s that going so far? Wishing you the best.

birthday plans: drink 100 light beers, bet it all on a horse named wagmi that finishes last. ayahuasca indoor skydiving. selling new dwtml commemorative knife set at five below. legalize ground beef.

@justintrimble gonna leave this here: first semester in college, opening of Dance Craze ska era film. was at a theater with a stage, and everyone was sitting still in their seats. had to be the first to make the move. within seconds the stage was a mosh pit. legend building. 😂

I'm proud to say I've been the first nerd to dance many times. Life is short. Go for it.

Kim Asendorf, PXL DUO POD, 2026. Art Basel Hong Kong Zero 10, Booth Z2 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai VIP Days: March 25 - 26, noon to 8pm Public Days: March 27- 29, noon to 8pm (Sunday 6pm)

SPIRITS is live all day today Spring Equinox on the front page of lacma.org Enjoy! The work is unpacked here : unframed.lacma.org/2026/03/19/tip… And resides for the year here : lacma.org/art/exhibition… @LACMA

john gerrard: SPIRITS → now open @john__gerrard collected 96 worn plastic sandals from beaches around the world, each carrying unknown stories of the people who wore them, and turned them into evocative digital sculptures using “gaussian splats.” SPIRITS is a year-long artwork meant to be experienced in the browser and on your phone, where you can interactively unfold a story of the 20th century oil age. The pieces reveal themselves during four 24-hour events tied to the solstices and equinoxes. One spirit rises every hour on LACMA’s homepage, beginning on the first day of spring, March 20 How to engage with SPIRITS: Move - Press and drag Transform - Press upon the object Sound off/on - Speaker icon to bottom left Rotate - Circle icon to bottom center Clear transformation - Sun icon to bottom right indian.spirits.works/twitterx26/ind…

Really excited about this. Cera was built to help artists move projects forward, but also to help them become clearer and stronger in the process of reflection. Glad to see that vision begin to take shape inside Callisto. 🔶

@toadswiback @SuperRare sources say...

@SuperRare is it inevitable that we die alone and afraid and our cardboard legacy we spent a lifetime constructing is used as a spinning sign in the hands of a idiotically grinning mascot to promote a new raising canes/pornhub/polymarket combination goon restaurant?

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Arab Bank Switzerland announces the Digital Art Prize 2026. For the first time since its inception in 2023, the prize unfolds within a curated thematic exhibition.

I am so proud to launch Groundworks, a new artist development programme for Singapore-based artists working with technology 🌱 Building the infrastructure we want to see common-protocol.com

@alvinfoo well said. from a founder's pov you have to stay focused and execute on your belief even when sometimes you feel like you're swimming upstream.

The smartest move in business often looks wrong at the start. The best products, strategies, and ideas usually don’t make sense to everyone early on. That’s why most people doubt them.

@fx_hash_ @IOivm gorgeous work. mesmerizing.

fxhash+ is honored to present: inkField For years, @IOivm has built systems that do more than generate images. They carry gesture, structure, and intention forward from one work to the next. A culmination of that trajectory, inkField is a series where painting shifts from image to action, and the act itself becomes part of what the work preserves.

@RealProductGirl builder here. @cera_ai ✌️🏽

I NEED my feed full of builders. What are you working on right now? I don't care if it's a startup or a weekend side project. If you're building something, I want you on my timeline. Reply and let's connect. 👇

@MickMcC_Photos beautiful work. following now.

I know my reach on this platform is pretty poor these days, but anyone who knows me, knows that I'll call it as I see it and I don't care who you are 👍 If you still like me and know this fact about me, glad to have you as a friend 🍀🍀

@seanbonner Flash drills. Crouch under the desk and cover your neck with your collar. Madness. Remember that well.

Shout out to my Cold War Gen X hommies who grew up doing “hide under your desk to protect you from Russian nukes” drills in school.

@justinaversano Wholly (holy) inspired by your work and dedication. ✌🏻📷

Waking up at sunrise for a celebration. To salute the sun. and to accomplish a task I had taken on since the first week into the project that randomly fell into place when I was gifted 7 empty vials back in Iceland. To collect the final Sacred sands of the Earth was collected in the golden heart of the Sahara, the heart of the African sand dunes. After traveling across 7 continents and collecting a geological sample in a small vial of each place; from beaches and deserts we unite the world through its sediment. Some are stars, others are volcanic, each have their own minerals and colors which make them vary of their carbon make up. A scientific collection to peek through a microscope and study each corner of the Earth to make art with. I will be honest, It felt like I was wielding the power of Thanos gauntlet with the keystones upon completing this set of 7, in a more innocence sense. It was a childhood dream, and adult wish to visit the entire Earth and now here is the proof, the data. The mindfulness to be careful, to respect and be responsible with the sands and create good with it than having collected it. During the painting portion of this project, I laid out a long 30 foot piece of handmade paper. Threw down some purple paint on the floor, and plunged my foot into it. I jumped onto one end of this paper and imprinted a single purple print. It had dawned on to me, I wanted to silkscreen all 7 continents from the Sands of the Earths I had collected on one big piece. I silkscreened the Iceland image with the woman who had gifted me the vials and later that day collected black sand from the beach. Where the story began. This print began with her at the opposite end of the paper. Week after week I slowly danced, jumped, slapped my hands down, walked perfectly straight, scrambled across, and wore my socks and shoes on it too. Every color of the rainbow to be different in some way, either how I stepped or the shape of the foot. I wanted to communicate all the ways how we touch the Earth with our feet, to make contact. And in some cases, to lift the sands with our hands. And as I write this message to whoever may be reading this. At the same time I post this image, I had also completed this giant paper painting over the course of 6 months, yesterday! Everything comes full circle, even when you walk a straight line. That's when things can become aligned, in time. There are no mistakes, only lessons and the timing of things to happen. Just as in this image, with open arms, I welcome you to join me to step on this Earth with grace. One step at a time, we end up where we need to be.

GM 🎞️ Moments of the Unknown. 346 March 18th at 06:46 in Merzouga, Morocco

Cera knows.

@rocketgirlART Love it! What a beautiful light.

gm studio slowly taking shape, ambitious new series being plotted...

@JimenaBuenaVida 🙏🏻

Most of us in our 40s are walking through life carrying a bag of shame that was never ours to begin with. Shame of being “too much” Shame of not being enough Shame of intimacy Shame of desire Shame of needing Shame of feeling Shame of wanting more Shame we absorbed before we even had the language to question it. Shame we learned in silence, in subtle reactions, in what was withheld, in what was never said. And we built our lives around it. We shrink. We perform. We overgive. We disconnect. We harden. We hide. We overachieve. We hustle. We people please. Not because we are inadequate, but because we adapted. And when we operate from shame, we don’t just hurt ourselves… we hurt others too. We close our hearts when we most want connection. We push people away or cling too tightly. We choose from fear instead of truth. We project our wounds onto the people we love. We withhold our full presence, our integrity, our love. Shame doesn’t just live inside us, it shapes how we relate, how we love, how we show up in the world. And it narrows our vision. When we’re in shame, we don’t see reality clearly, we see life through the lens of our wounds. We make things mean something about us. We assume, react, defend, or collapse. We forget there are multiple sides, multiple truths, multiple realities. Just like us, everyone is carrying their own story, their own conditioning, their own fears. And when we can’t see that, we get stuck. Stuck in one perspective. Stuck in one emotion. Stuck in one version of the truth. But healing opens our vision. It allows us to hold more than one perspective at once. To see ourselves with compassion, and others with understanding. But… shame is not a life sentence. It’s a portal. Every place you feel shame is a place that is asking to be seen with love instead of judgment. Not fixed. Not rushed. Not bypassed. Seen. Acknowledged. Because underneath shame, there is nothing wrong with you. There is only a part of you that learned it wasn’t safe to be fully expressed. And the moment you create safety for that part, with your own presence, your own honesty, your own compassion, shame begins to dissolve. Not all at once. But layer by layer. Until what’s left is you. Whole. Worthy. Unapologetically alive.

@BHAREBOY Big up. 👊🏼

wtf, absolutely crazy insane news. honored to announce that this painting has sold for 30K USD to a private collection. in shock fr, wtf

Trevor Paglen Selected as the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award Recipient Guggenheim New York and LG proudly announce Trevor Paglen as the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award recipient. Paglen is the fourth artist to be recognized as part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a five-year, multifaceted collaboration designed to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Paglen will deliver the lecture-performance "The Lizard People Are Here!" at Guggenheim New York on May 18. Please visit guggenheim.org/calendar/ for more information.