Lottie Bae's Artist's Statement

So, you suspect the use of AI in the making of some of the Lonely Babes.
I'm so happy you noticed!

Hi, I'm Lottie.
I'm the creator and designer of Lottie J. Lingerie and our new Lottie Bae line.

Our Lonely Babes imagery is made by me and, as suspected, AI was involved.

All of our Lonely Babes imagery is rendered by me, using AI for reference or base imagery, as a part of a greater artist's statement about the fashion industry.

None of our Lonely Babes imagery is strictly created by AI. 
Take a closer look. The details and cohesive nature of the collection will tell you everything you need to know.

AI could never.

But why?

TLDR: I am the creator of the final images used. Including such imagery in this product line is an intentional choice. Read more below.

 

Here's what I mean-

Unlike every hand crafted Lottie J. product, the Lottie Bae line is produced by someone else. Lottie J. Lingerie has never done this before. Lottie Bae products are not made by me, but I made them what they are. (Are we connecting dots yet?)

The Lonely Babes, as part of the Lottie Bae collection, are pointing out that consumers rarely stop to think about the products they consume.
 
These babes are a fun, colorful, weird, sexy, check point asking their consumers to stop for a moment and think. The fashion industry and the creation of consumable product is a never ending cycle of reference, regurgitation, and white labeling that is usually hidden from consumers.

My lingerie brand is an unsustainable deviation from how this industry works because of the fact that we make everything ourselves.

This is a terrifying fact that I have had to swallow recently.Being able to offer more while not having to make any of it in house means me and my team don't need to take on more than we are capable of. This serves as an opportunity to build some momentum for us as a very small business.

My abilities, physically, mentally, &/or fiscally, could change or cease at any moment.

As an artist that runs a business in an increasingly scary economy, I need options. The Lottie Bae Store is where I have started to branch out in hopes of staying afloat. 

I am very excited to be able to share a bit more of my personally as a queer artist, and to be doing it in a way that is allowing me to focus on my hand made product with a passive income in the background.

You don't have to buy Lonely babes or support the Lottie Bae Store. Shop Lottie J. instead or don't even do that tbh! I get it. When you do shop elsewhere though, consider that other brands' use of AI may not be be so blatant.

  

Some more about my background as an artist-

I am a classically trained fine artist. I come from a family of artist, painters, sculptors, engineers, and inventors. So much of my early life was spent with artists, learning and making things. A woman named Pat taught art classes, along with other artists, in a small town art studio close to where I grew up in the cornfields. She had a huge impact on me. I'll never forget her, or her ebb and flow take on breaking the rules but doing it right. Occasionally I had the opportunity to take private art lessons, and did as often as possible. Before I entered high school I tested out of the freshman and sophomore classes and got to hang with the older kids in Mrs. Digi's class. In college, before I dropped out, I took as many art classes as I could get away with, specifically ceramics. My ceramics professor should have hated me because I refused to follow the syllabus and made my own. Instead he passed me with extra credit and put my project concepts on the syllabus for the next semester.

 

Every ounce of my art background and training is why you are able to own things that I've made, and why I have been able to make the work that you support.

I can appreciate the reality of the impact of AI that some artist have faced. I'm one of them.