It’s been such a long time since I spent a day like this. I remember these days occurring often as a child, says that swallowed me up and I swam deep through those days happily with no regard for a clock, a worry, a responsibility, or any urge to get onto the next thing. This day, like those days, was spent mainly laying in bed. No guilt for laying in bed. The bed was irrelevant compared to the joyful adventures I was having in my head. I could lay in bed or by the pool, ride a train or swim in the sea…twoood not matter! Today was one of the days of my life dedicated to imagination and creation! I left my body for hours and hours on end to play with colors and obsessively draw up images to being the imagination into this reality. I was watching my ideas come to life! Like a day in a deliver room where time means nothing and the air is sacred…a bubble in time to play!

BEAUTIFUL BRUNETTE WOMAN IN CROCHET TOP AND DAISY DUKES READING KINDLE AND DRINKING MINT TEA SITTING ON CUSHIONS IN A CAFE IN BALI WITH THATCH ROOF NEAR VOLCANO AT SUNSET

I began illustrations for my novel today!! Both sound and visual illustrations. I produced the sounds myself in Ableton. I began playing with AI digital art for the pictures. I’m obsessed. My fantasy world is coming to more of my senses and I’m tingling and squeezing with delight in my bedroom, alone in Bali…on my little artist retreat, away from the noisy world…just me diving deeper and deeper into my memories and fantasies. It’s soooo pretty and exciting inside my head! I can’t wait to share what I’ve seen and heard!

For the AI art, I’m playing with an app on my phone called “Imagine” that is $6.99/week. It’s well worth the money for me right now as it’s flooding me with fun and inspiration. I LOVE that I can describe a scene in my book and suddenly see it come to life. I can describe a moment in my day and voila…here’s an illustration. It’s almost like having my own personal photographer, after the fact, and hyper-artistic. Since the AI generates an unlimited number of variations, I can easily get lost in hitting the “refresh” button. —- Prepare yourself, I might start illustrating my blog as well as my book. It’s just TOO MUCH FUN. Try it for yourself. It’s instant gratification…WAY more fun than Instagram by a long shot. Nothing but endorphins…at least if you’re a highly visual human who loves writing and pretty pictures like me. —- There are many styles to play with. I prefer vibrant colorful 3D art styles. It’s hard to choose because every art style has something so beautiful to offer us. It’s fun to try your same description represented in different styles…You have to use your intuition, the reaction in your gut to know which one is for you…if you have to choose. On this particular app (Imagine), I gravitate towards Candyland, Painting, Studio Ghibli, Landscape, Glass Art.

I could get so lost in here for hours and hours though…pure curiosity to see what my life and my story look like in different art styles. Change the art style, completely change the feeling, the mood. The art styles are lenses through which we view the world. What do you want yours to look like / feel like? It’s a beautiful exercise for self-reflection and self-identification. How do you (and all the different parts of you) want to be represented visually? Also interesting… different art styles are appropriate for different projects or places. The AI art style that’s perfect for my upcoming novel may be a different style than the AI art I use for my next music album which is totally different than the AI art I use to illustrate these blog posts. Or maybe eventually, I’ll use the same art for EVERYTHING. Do you feel how much fun this can be? You can use AI for your Instagram account, your profile photo, postcards to beloveds, a daily journal instead of or in addition to your writing, as a little gift or a label for a gift, for your family holiday photo, fridge magnets. Keep the ideas rolling in!

BEAUTIFUL BRUNETTE WOMAN DRINKING BUTTERFLY BLUE TEA TURQUOISE POOL BOUGAINVILLE BALI

I finally made my way to the pool for the last rays of sunshine. The birds are singing and I really wouldn’t mind if the pool generator switched off. The buzzing is detracting from the ambiance but not my mood. My teabag from the morning is hanging on the willow tree branch…so that’s where it went! Haha I wondered. I’m drinking blue Butterfly Pea Flower tea now — Google it, the results are very sexual. ;)

My hair is longer. I can feel it and it looks different in the mirror. Just realizing today. I love how fast I grow in tropical weather. I’m very excited for my dinner this evening….feed me more rice pretty please! I feel so blessed today that my greatest dilemma is whether to read Twilight, to read Oscar Wilde, to write the new Cha Wilde novel, to produce new Cha Wilde music, or to continue generating AI illustrations for Cha Wilde’s fantasy world. Shall I dip into my imagination or someone else’s? At some point I’ll have to sleep…darn it.

Love & Rainbows,
Cha🍍Wilde