mara barros

Dona Mara
Visual artist

Mara Barros is a designer and visual artist working with generative tools to explore surreal character design, speculative fashion, and the uncanny edges of realism. She approaches AI image-making as a process of intuitive iteration, less about describing and more about provoking. Blending is central to her method: she combines disparate references across model versions to coax out forms that wouldn’t emerge through prompting alone. Her background in painting, photography, and design informs a precise sense of visual rhythm, often favoring ambiguity over resolution. Rather than chase trends or output volume, she works slowly, guided by instinct, memory, and contradiction. Currently, she’s focused on refining a personal visual language that feels tactile, cinematic, and slightly askew.