The calendar page has turned to October. Fall is upon us. This break from summer is a reminder that even as time presses ahead in linear fashion, cycles are all around us. One of the most potent cycles is that of the changing seasons.

This series is a kind of love letter to changing seasons viewed through the lens of the Roaring ’20s. The images are visual narratives built from photos I had taken across the seasons from the New York Botanical Garden to the New Hampshire countryside. The fashion model was generated by AI and incorporated into the visual narratives. These four images present the seasons as a narrative of elegance, youth, and transformation. They also provide an example of how AI can be used to expand artistic frontiers.

This series joins a much older artistic tradition. In 1725, Antonio Vivaldi gave the changing year one of its most enduring expressions in “The Four Seasons,” translating spring’s awakening, summer’s intensity, autumn’s abundance, and winter’s cold into music. Visual artists have long taken up the same challenge in their own languages. Giuseppe Arcimboldo personified the seasons through fantastical vegetal heads; Nicolas Poussin through sweeping landscapes; François Boucher and Rosalba Carriera through elegant allegorical figures; and Alphonse Mucha through decorative women immersed in nature.

Like those earlier works, this series treats the seasons as more than moments on a calendar. Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter become meditations on nature, emotion, change, renewal, abundance, and the passage of time, filtered here through the glamour and romance of the 1920s.