A clarification about art, technology, and who I am
I have been meaning to write this for a while.
As Euryeth becomes increasingly associated with modern digital tools, artificial intelligence, generated music, digital art and new creative technologies, I think it is important to clarify something:
I am Euryeth, the artist. I am not an โAI artistโ in the sense that AI is the foundation of my artistic identity.
I have been making art for most of my life.
Before generative AI became what it is today, I was already drawing, painting, writing, experimenting with music, creating visual work, studying design, exploring storytelling and expressing myself through different forms of art.
I have records of that journey.
I have old drawings, paintings, recordings, writings, projects and other material documenting years of creative work. Some of my music was released long before the current generation of generative AI tools became part of the creative landscape.
My relationship with technology came later as an extension of that journey โ not as its replacement.
I Didn’t Discover Art Through AI
This distinction matters to me.
I did not wake up one day, discover an AI generator and decide to become an artist.
I was already an artist who eventually discovered another set of tools.
That difference may seem small from the outside, but it is enormous from the inside.
I have spent years learning about art, music, graphic design, writing, storytelling, marketing and visual communication. I studied Economics, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing, eventually earning a Master’s degree in Digital Marketing because I wanted to understand not only how to create, but also how ideas, identities and creative work move through the modern world.
Today, I use that knowledge to build Euryeth.
Yes, I Use AI
I am not going to hide that.
I use artificial intelligence.
I use it because it is modern, powerful, accessible and, frankly, because I do not have unlimited resources.
Traditional production can be expensive.
Hiring musicians, producers, studios, visual teams, animators, designers and other specialists for every idea can require resources that an independent artist simply does not always have.
AI allows me to experiment at a scale that would otherwise be extremely difficult.
But there is a huge difference between having a tool and having a vision.
A tool can generate possibilities.
It does not automatically decide what I want Euryeth to sound like.
It does not know the story I am trying to tell.
It does not know why a certain lyric belongs in a certain song.
It does not know which version I reject, which version I keep, what I rewrite, what I record, what I edit, what I combine, what I transform or what I ultimately consider worthy of becoming part of my work.
That is where I come in.
The Tool Is Not the Artist
I see AI in much the same way I see a brush, camera, synthesizer, guitar, editing software or recording equipment.
The tool matters.
But the person using it matters too.
And working with AI creatively is not simply pressing a button and walking away.
The more ambitious the result, the more direction, experimentation, selection, correction, composition and refinement are required.
There is a strange misconception that if technology makes something possible, the human contribution must therefore have disappeared.
I don’t believe that.
Technology changes the location of creative labor.
The artist’s work increasingly becomes about knowing what to ask for, knowing what to reject, knowing what to keep, knowing how to transform it, and knowing when the work finally feels like their own.
That is a skill.
And I believe that skill will become increasingly visible as these technologies mature.
Traditional + Modern
I don’t want to choose between the old world and the new one.
I want both.
I love traditional art.
I love the physicality of drawing and painting. I love writing with a pen. I love the imperfections of handmade work. I love the history of artistic techniques that survived for centuries.
But I also love digital art, electronic music, software, experimentation and emerging technologies.
That combination is not a contradiction.
It is Euryeth.
In fact, it is one of the reasons I adopted the vampire / dhampir persona.
The character represents something I have always found fascinating:
the meeting of old and new.
Something ancient existing inside a modern world.
Tradition and technology.
History and futurism.
The physical and the digital.
The human and the artificial.
The old brush and the new machine.
Euryeth exists somewhere between those worlds.
Music Is No Exception
Today, I can build musical foundations that are highly personalized to my taste without necessarily needing a traditional producer for every track.
I can experiment with genres, structures, textures, instruments, tempos and sounds until I find something that fits the idea in my head.
Then I write.
I direct.
I refine.
I record my vocals.
I make decisions.
I reject ideas.
I build upon others.
And eventually, the music becomes mine in the same way that a painter can take a blank canvas, choose materials, make hundreds of decisions and eventually produce a finished painting.
The technology does not make every decision for me.
I am still the person deciding what Euryeth is.
I Also Understand the Criticism
I am not asking everyone to love AI.
I understand why many traditional artists are uncomfortable with it.
I understand concerns about originality, authorship, artistic labor, training data, creative industries and the value of handmade work.
Those are legitimate conversations.
And I don’t expect everyone to look at my work and interpret it the same way I do.
Some people will see an AI-assisted artwork and dislike it.
Some will consider it digital art.
Some will call it AI art.
Some will simply call it Euryeth.
I accept that.
Art has never existed without disagreement about what qualifies as art.
But I Want the Record to Be Clear
I don’t want the history of Euryeth to eventually be reduced to:
โAn AI artist who started making things with generators.โ
That would simply be inaccurate.
Euryeth existed before this technology became central to my creative process.
The drawings existed.
The paintings existed.
The writing existed.
The recordings existed.
The experimentation existed.
The years of learning existed.
The failures existed.
The ideas existed.
The artist existed.
AI arrived later.
And I chose to use it.
That distinction is important to me.
I Am a Modern Artist
I am not ashamed of using modern tools.
Quite the opposite.
I want to become exceptionally good at using them.
Not because I want technology to replace my creativity, but because I want to see how far my creativity can go when I have access to tools that previous generations of independent artists could never have imagined.
And I still want to improve traditionally.
I still want to paint.
I still want to draw.
I still want to write.
I still want to record.
I still want to learn instruments and develop my musical abilities.
I still want to experiment with physical materials.
I want the entire spectrum.
Traditional. Digital. Artificial. Human.
Not as opposing identities, but as different instruments in the same artistic journey.
So, What Is Euryeth?
Euryeth is not a machine.
Euryeth is not a generator.
Euryeth is not a prompt.
Euryeth is not a software package.
Euryeth is the artist behind the work.
The tools will change.
The technology will change.
The way music is produced will change.
The way paintings are created will change.
The way people define โartโ will probably change again and again.
I intend to change with it.
But the reason I create will remain the same:
to express myself, to experiment, to learn, to tell stories, and to make art.
I have chosen to live between worlds.
Perhaps that is exactly what Euryeth was always meant to be.
Ancient soul. Modern tools. Human vision.
โ Euryeth / Omar Alami
