New Old Pottery

Imaginary Beings — AI visual research
Imaginary Beings

Where porcelain meets skin, and craft becomes identity.

Imaginary Beings is the second chapter of the Wunderkammer collection. Each figure is a hybrid creature born from three visual traditions that share the same obsession with surface, ornament and ritual: the decorative language of antique porcelain, the iconography of Sicilian Moor's heads, and the permanent mark of tattoo culture.

The result is a series of impossible objects — heads that are simultaneously sculptures, vessels and living bodies. Artefacts from a civilization that never existed, but feels deeply familiar.

AI visual research.
Part of the Bold & New Old universe.

Francesco Paternoster


Art Director, Illustrator and Educator. My practice moves between design and image-making, combining branding, lettering and illustration with a curiosity for new tools and traditional techniques.

Studio


Francesco Paternoster
Bari — Milano, Italy
P.IVA 01450810773