This utterly gorgeous image of British singer Sade was created by Nettrice Gaskins, an African-American artist whose work explores "techno-vernacular creativity" and Afrofuturism. As that suggests, her medium for creating this image and others in her series of portraits is unique: Deep Dream, the neural network AI.

“I used Deep Dream Generator's algorithm, which is inspired by the human brain," she tells me. "The generator uses the stylistic elements of one image to draw the content of another. The first picture defines the portrait I want to create and the second picture I upload gives the program a style to simulate. The process may include more than one pass in the generator, using different style images, until I get the image I want." This portrait of Sade, for instance, "[Is] a composite of multiple Deep Dream images."

Here's another one I love below, a portrait of Pulitzer-winning hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar, re-imagined by Dr. Gaskins and Deep Dream through a symphony of sharp angles that evoke his epic, staccato rap style: