My creative process begins with a kind of digital intuition. I spend hours inside AI tools — prompting, refining, responding — until something stirs. Using platforms like MidJourney, Runway ML and ChatGPT, I sculpt not just images, but atmospheres: emotional environments waiting to unfold.
Once a visual feels alive, I move into motion. Using tools like Sora, Google Flow Deforum, Runway ML, Premiere Pro, CapCut, and Topaz, I animate breath into those still forms — crafting loops, transitions, and cinematic arcs that feel less like videos and more like living systems. With Artlist, I layer sound to shape tone. Every frame becomes part of a rhythm.
But my work doesn’t stop with pixels. I bring it into physical form — sculpting with epoxy, fabric, MDF, glass, and plaster. These materials become emotional textures — remnants of something soft, fleeting, or fractured.
Whether I’m creating branded AI-based storytelling (as I did for the conceptual perfume brand Within5149) or building immersive installation environments, each project becomes a living emotional system — layered, intuitive, and full of atmosphere.
I create emotional systems made of motion, light, and memory.
As a new media and mixed-media artist, my practice lives at the edge of physical and digital. I test multiple software tools side by side — not just to generate, but to feel. My work is driven by resonance. I go the extra mile to find the frame that holds weight, the cloud that feels alive, the story that breathes through silence.
I am not a coder — I am a translator. I shape motion with meaning and I listen closely to the systems I build.
Clouds have always been part of my life. Since childhood, I would sit in silence and watch them — not for their form, but for their feeling. They gave me space. Calm. Reflection. I still return to them. Not to name them — but to feel them.Even now, I want to reach out and touch them — to understand them by being in them.
Clouds remain central to my work because they remind me what it means to hold presence — and to let things pass. They teach me to be in the moment, to enjoy it fully. Because every feeling arrives with a purpose — and deserves to be felt.
Some clouds pass. Others stay with us.
If this cloud resonated with you —
If something softened, paused, or stirred —
I’d love to hear from you.I’m open to conversation, collaboration, or quiet exchange.
Melis Ragusin
melis@melisragusin.com
www.melisragusin.com
(+90) 533 499 3245
⚙️ Tools I explore in my workflow:
MidJourney · Google Flow · Sora · Runway ML · ChatGPT · Deforum · Premiere Pro · CapCut · Topaz · Photoshop · Lightbox · Artlist