Meet Alex U., known online as SURREALBREWS, a trained architect turned digital experimentalist, blurring the lines between design, art, and AI.
Architecture was the starting point: structure, precision, logic. But for Alex, it never fully scratched the itch for open-ended, intuitive creation. Drawing had always been in the background, on napkins, screens, sketchpads, whenever time allowed. Ideas were constant; time, not so much. Concepts piled up, waiting for space to breathe.
Then came neural networks. Suddenly, the gap between thought and image disappeared. With just a few lines of text, visual ideas could materialise in seconds. The results? Unpredictable. Sometimes off. Sometimes unexpectedly perfect. But always fast— fast enough to bring back something vital: the joy of creative play.
Alex doesn’t wear the label “artist” in the traditional sense. Think of him more as a digital alchemist — combining neural tools with human curiosity. The process is part science, part improvisation. Much like brewing beer (another of Alex’s passions): start with a solid base, tweak the ingredients, toss in something unexpected — and see what ferments. Prompts work the same way. A single word can flip everything.
The resulting work lives somewhere between photorealism and digital impressionism — layered, contradictory, suggestive. It’s not about polish or perfection. It’s about finding beauty in the blur: that in-between space where logic slips into dream, and clarity dissolves into abstraction. Forgotten places. Fractured realities. The poetry of imperfection.
Every image is an experiment. A quiet resistance to control. A search for meaning in the messy middle.
Artist: SURREALBREWS
