Notes on the Living Arts
Trevett AllenEssays and studio experiments on how to find what to make next. By Trevett Allen — artist, educator, founder of ApoKrino: a repeatable method for reading your own work to find the direction already in it. Human-first AI — the tools analyze, never author.
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First full-sketchbook analysis: JTA3 Drawing Spirit (2003)
I am a sketchbook obsessed art and maler space teacher. Two years ago, I decided to turn my skills on myself… to make stuff and to do the homework I have been assigning for the last 26+ years: I have finally completed the main software buil...
Before the Finished Thing: What Artists Do in Sketchbooks
The Artist's First Job
Every generation inherits a visual world it did not make. The inherited world arrives with its own conventions for what is worth seeing, what counts as beauty, what can be depicted and what cannot, what the hu...
Notes on Apprenticeship and the Living Arts
Notes on Apprenticeship
Essays One and Two
Trevett Allen
Preface to the series
This is the first installment of a series about apprenticeship. The series exists because of a
specific window that is closing fast.
For most of human his...
AI Elephants, A Room of One’s Own and the Molehills Hiding Mountains.
Why I’d Rather Give My Paintings Away
My mother asked which parts of my book are AI. The honest answer took me somewhere I didn’t expect — to what art is for, to why almost all of the loudest arguments about it fail a very old test, and...
My Sketchbook Has Been Drawing Me
I often feel like I have been building the same sketchbook for thirty years.
Not filling the same one, obviously. I have filled and lost and damaged and abandoned more sketchbooks than I can count. Some are beautiful in the way old wor...
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Who are we, really, and who do we want to become next? Founder of ApoKrino, a human-first AI sketchbook and creativity system. Recover your signal, build creative agency, and turn your ideas into coherent work. apokrino.com
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