Anna Condo navigates the art world with expertise. Her art defies easy categorization — at times cinematic, at times deeply introspective — but is always meaningful and very, very artistic, making you read the floral language through all the lines. She has developed a language that combines image and emotion without resorting to spectacle, 'IN COLOR CODE'. Born in Armenia and raised in France, she combines the structure of film, the restraint of photography, and the rhythm of poetry into a singular, deliberate technique.
IN COLOR CODE Art by Anna Condo
Anna Condo's artistic path crosses continents, mediums, and decades, but at its core is a singular commitment to creating mystery and emotional clarity. Condo, who was born in Armenia and reared in France and has a background in film, photography, and poetry, approaches whatever she does with a director's eye and a poet's soul.
From intimate flower portraits to cinematic explorations of identity, her work is both classical and radical. Condo's latest AI-driven series, IN COLOR CODE, combines her longstanding interests with color, character, and emotion to create a strange yet exact psychological drama. In this artistic special, look at how intuition, technology, and tenderness intersect in her developing creative world.
How Did the Idea for IN COLOR CODE First Emerge, and How Did the Pieces Begin to Cohere Into a Series?
The idea began intuitively for Condo. While experimenting with AI-generated textures, lighting, and overlays, she noticed how each color palette and image suggested its own story—almost like an ensemble cast or a sequence of film stills. Over time, the pieces began to interact with one another, forming a kind of family—color-coded and composed as a theater of emotion.
Anna Condo’s process is very iterative. She often begins with a mood or a color in mind, prompting the AI accordingly and refining with each pass. She manipulates outputs through collage, layering, or retouching, thinking of it more as directing than generating—there is a type of choreography even in the glitches between every little detailed line and shape.
Her workspace is minimal by choice; she works best in bed, where ideas drift in like lucid dreams. Her approach is simple. She keeps going until something sparks, that quiet tingle that says, “That's it, that's me.”
Years Experimenting With AI
The artist began seriously experimenting with AI in 2022. It quickly became a new way for her to merge her love of all art forms and aesthetics, much like any other technology she has worked with. With AI, however, she discovered the ability to stretch reality even further, creating entire worlds that once existed only in her imagination.
Some of Anna's early flower shots are still memorable, intimate moments in which flowers told her much about herself. A handful of her experimental videos on identity and the mask stand out, and those themes continue to appear in various forms. Her early AI works represent the beginning of her mixing of interests in art, nature, food, theater, the circus world, and flower still lifes.
To her:
"Flowers are, like us humans, contradictions—fragile and fierce, ephemeral yet eternal. Their soul, seduction, and silence hold the true me."
Photos by: @anna.condo.
