This is A.I. Gemini, the world’s first artificial intelligence ink artist. With graceful precision, it paints a landscape based on data fed to it by its creator, Victor Wong, who is stood beside, sipping coffee.

“We exchange ideas. It’s kind of an interaction between machine and human – a collaboration,” says Wong. “Gemini cannot create its own pictures; I cannot draw pictures like that. It’s a combination of both the AI world and the real world.”

Their first ever ink painting, Escapism 0001, was collected by Cathay Pacific and featured on its inflight magazine cover in January 2019. Since then, two additional pieces – Paramita 02 and Paramita 04 – have been selected for our Gallery in the skies, in which a series of artworks will be displayed in the new Business cabins of Cathay Pacific’s Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Each piece in the Cathay collection offers a unique perspective on the natural environment – real or imagined.

While Wong has programmed Gemini to create landscapes based on geographical data – statistics about rainfall, erosion and tectonic forces – there's another element Wong introduced into his equation: randomness. Once the data goes in, Wong doesn’t know what will come out. Each painting is truly unique.