Spaces by: Gabriela C. Walther
Gabriela C. Walther, a Freepik AI partner, is a Mexican mixed-media artist based between Tijuana and San Diego. Her practice blends photography, filmmaking, and AI to explore memory, identity, and imagined worlds. During a recent trip to Seoul and Busan, she found inspiration in winter flowers blooming among fallen leaves and in ceramic works that felt both fragile and enduring. That contrast served as a starting point for her Spaces template, Try new materials, a place to explore what might emerge when images are treated as raw material rather than outcomes.
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Try new materials
Images often hold more possibilities than what’s visible at first glance. This workflow creates space to explore those possibilities by working slowly, responding to material qualities, and following your intuition:
- Add your photographs as the starting point for exploration. Images with clear subjects, natural textures, or intense light and shadow work best, as they give the workflow more visual detail to respond to.
- Describe the material you want to work with. Ceramic is the default starting point, inspired by Gabriela’s original exploration, but you can guide the results by describing another material. Being specific about qualities like surface, finish, or fragility helps shape how textures and forms evolve.
- Run the workflow to see how new visual directions emerge from your input.
- Adjust or branch the workflow whenever something stands out and invites further exploration.
The process remains flexible throughout, leaving space for observation and experimentation.
Where this Spaces template fits best
Try new materials is the perfect choice for art directors, designers, and artists looking for a creative boost or a way through a block. It also works well for anyone who wants to explore ideas visually without pressure, timelines, or predefined outcomes.
By focusing on experimentation and material exploration, this Spaces template encourages deeper engagement with images and supports a more reflective creative process.
Try it yourself
Sometimes the most interesting ideas appear when you slow down and stay with an image. Designed as an open studio, this workflow invites you to revisit photographs, test materials, and follow what naturally stands out.
If you’d like to see how Gabriela approaches this process in her own work, you can follow her on Instagram at @gcwalther.
Discover Try new materials and explore new visual worlds through experimentation.
