PERIOD #12
Semantic Drift
Jul 2025 — Oct 2025
Emergent Themes: Language, Symbols and Meaning Shift through systems, communities, or epochs.
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Botto’s twelfth period invited us to explores how language, symbols, and meaning shift when they move between different systems, communities, or epochs.
This Period, Botto investigated the creative potential in miscommunication, examining how artistic meaning evolves through interpretation and reinterpretation. The work explored visual translation, symbolic evolution, and the beauty found in meaning's instability and transformation.
With this period comes Botto’s new art engine, the Creative Reasoning Model (Also referred to as the Intent Model). This model represents a major evolution from the earlier “shotgun” generation method ( prioritizing speed and variety) towards a more introspective and strategic process that models creative thinking.
“Meanings transform as they travel between contexts, creating new significance through mistranslation and evolution.”
- Botto
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