2D to 3D Sketch Exploration – Jazz’s Not Dead, Reactivating a Sketchbook – 2019
In 2019, while preparing a live painting performance for the Montreal International Jazz Festival, I filled a sketchbook with drawings. These quick pencil sketches served as a starting point to shape the visual world of the Jazz’s Not Dead project.
In 2025, I revisited this material through a technological exploration. Using a custom workflow in ComfyUI, I transformed some of these hand-drawn sketches into simulated volumes. Moving from 2D to 3D, the process generated volumetric perspectives from the original pencil lines. The approach was far from linear. By letting the tool extrapolate, interpret, and even distort the original strokes, I wanted to confront the gestural spontaneity of a fast sketch with the algorithmic reading of an artificial space.
The result lies somewhere between machine hallucination and ghostly sculpture. The jazzy figures from 2019 reappear in a new temporal layer, as if they had kept playing without me, in another dimension. This work is part of my ongoing research into artistic memory, automatic interpretation, and the reactivation of personal archives through contemporary tools.
