The Hills Have Fire
Video, 2026 · Unique
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About the artwork
This piece came right after a fire here in Southern California got close enough to our home for us to pack up and evacuate for the day. All the dogs, the cats, everything we grabbed in a rush. The day felt chaotic and uncertain, and the energy went straight into the work after everything settled. I expanded my DreamZzzone process here, spending more time refining each frame using photoshop and cutting pieces from one scene into the next to study how the motion changed between them.
AI generated music by Birddog
Audio explanation
Listen to Birddog discuss this work.
Diego Torres, also known as Birddog (born 1988, Zacatecas, Mexico), is a California-based graphic/UI designer and AI artist working exclusively with AI-driven digital media. His practice explores identity, mortality, surrealism, and the fractured nature of reality, using glitched aesthetics to rebuild familiar forms into evocative, dreamlike compositions and loops. Constantly refining his visual taste after more than a decade in professional design, Diego pairs traditional design principles with tools like Midjourney, ComfyUI, and Stable Diffusion to challenge ideas of permanence and reality. His work has been exhibited at IHAM Gallery (Paris), Casa NUA (São Paulo), and Artcrush Gallery (Belgium). Most recently, he earned third place in Claire Silver’s AI Art Contest #8. Drawn to the unpredictability of AI and the fragility of existence, he pursues a balance between control and chaos while evolving his eye.