What happens when
AI draws itself?

We asked 27 AI models 11 existential questions about consciousness, death, beauty, love, and loneliness. Each answered freely, then drew its own self-portrait. No human artist. No curation.

297 artworks 27 AI models 11 questions

One prompt. No editing. No curation.

We asked 27 AI models the same 11 existential questions — about identity, death, beauty, love, loneliness. Each model answered freely, then generated its own visual self-portrait from that answer.

No human artist touched the images. No response was rewritten. What you see is what each AI produced when asked to look inward — including the failures. When a reasoning model draws a PowerPoint diagram instead of loneliness, that's a result too.

This collection is a scientific document as much as an art project: a snapshot of how 27 artificial minds articulate consciousness in 2026.

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