MEET BECKY AND THE BOTS, Q&A WITH H+ ROSTER ARTIST

At H+ Creative, we're thrilled to introduce Becky Constantinides, known in the creative world as Becky and the Bots. Based in Athens, Greece, Becky is a fine jeweler turned AI artist whose work transforms digital space into iridescent wonderlands of color, texture, and light. With deep expertise in metalsmithing, photography, and spatial design, she reimagines the possibilities of generative AI through maximalist fashion concepts, luminous interiors, and sculptural compositions that sparkle with her signature eye motifs. Her innovative approach continues to evolve, pushing the boundaries of AI-driven creativity while maintaining unwavering ethical standards.

In our recent conversation, Becky Constantinides shared insights into her iterative creative process with AI tools, the influence of Greek light and culture on her aesthetic, and her journey from founding Annachich Architectural Jewelry to collaborating with brands seeking next-generation visual content. Represented by H+ Creative, Becky continues to captivate audiences with her vibrant, optimistic visions that celebrate both technological innovation and environmental consciousness.

H+: What are three core words that describe your creative output?

Becky and the Bots: Sparkly, texture-rich, and playful!

H+: How did your journey from jewelry design to AI art shape the way you think about creating digital work?

Becky and the Bots: All of the mediums I’ve worked with inform my work with AI but what’s been the most fun about the transition from jewelry to digital work specifically is abandoning physics and the expected relationship between a design and the body. Jewelry design is such a narrow medium. The pieces have to fit perfectly and the materials can be itty bitty.

With AI and digital work, you can circumvent those expectations and play with scale because you aren’t worried about weight or gravity. I still love to create things that are beautiful and sparkly but now I can make a coat that would weigh 100 pounds in real life because it’s crusted with gold and gemstones, or a sculpture the size of a skyscraper.

H+: Can you walk us through your creative process with AI? How does a piece go from idea to final image?

Becky and the Bots:  I’m usually driven by mixing materials or pushing the bounds of where we’d expect to see a material.

People ask me all the time, “what’s the prompt?” and the answer is that it’s not a prompt, it’s a conversation. Every final image comes from hundreds of prompts and layers of inpainting as part of a long conversation between me and anywhere from 4 to 10 different AI programs per image. I might spend hours going back and forth building details on the fabric of a coat, then build the environment separately as another layer. Then everything gets composited together in Photoshop and retouched.

H+: Q: You split your time between Athens, Greece and traveling the world. How does your nomadic lifestyle influence your art?

Becky and the Bots:  It’s funny because I did a guest lecture at Wesleyan College recently so I was pulling up old documentation from my jewelry line and early work, and everything was so… grey! My jewelry trade show booth was grey, my studio was grey.

My world got so much more colorful when I left the US, metaphorically and literally! I spent a year and a half traveling through Mexico and Costa Rica and obsessively documenting the abundance of textures and colors there. All of that feeds into my work now and I think the colorful and texture-heavy worlds I create are not only an amalgamation of the places I’ve visited, but a much truer artistic alignment with who I am as a person.

H+: What drew you to Midjourney specifically, and how do you push the technology to achieve your signature iridescent, gemstone-like aesthetic?

Becky and the Bots: As soon as I saw early AI-generated images in the news and in my Instagram feed in the summer of 2022, I knew I wanted to explore the possibilities. My first works were still lifes in Midjourney in September 2022. I joined as soon as it became available to the public. Even though they were painterly and lacked a level of realism, I loved them so much. I was hooked from day one.

My explorations have always been material driven so I love to push the AI to mix and combine materials. I’ve built a huge, ever-expanding library of these mixed materials that I use as references in all of my work.

H+: You've worked with clients in fashion, music, and product design. What's your dream collaboration in the AI art space?

Becky and the Bots: The big dream is to partner with a client who wants to bring my large-scale sculptures to life. I’ve already prototyped smaller versions but I’d love to move on to festival or stage-scale builds.

I also really love creating still lifes so I’d love to do more campaigns creating magical scenes in the vegan beauty, vegan food, and accessories spaces.

H+: Your prints are produced with sustainable, vegan materials and carbon-neutral shipping. Why is ethical production important to your practice?

Becky and the Bots:  I’ve been vegan for over 5 years so I don’t use any animal materials in my personal life. I feel fortunate that I’ve been able to build a business that stays aligned with those values.

One of the things I loved immediately about AI, and still love, is that I can create digital versions of sequins, rhinestones, and other plastic-derivatives to my heart’s content without introducing any physical waste into the ecosystem. There’s a lot of talk about water use with AI, but it pales in comparison to producing plastic, which takes huge energy inputs, toxic industrial processing, and then breaks down into microplastics instead of truly decomposing.

I think we should be using AI thoughtfully and consciously but you would have to create around 80,000 AI images to match the water use of one polyester jacket, and around 100,000-250,000+ to match the water use of one hamburger.

Now that I’m bringing physical products into the world based on my AI designs, I am committed to producing fewer, better things with sustainable, plastic-free, vegan materials.

H+: What advice would you give to artists who are hesitant about incorporating AI into their creative workflow?

Becky and the Bots: Most of the artists I know who have integrated AI successfully into their practice already have a foundation in art and design. AI is democratizing in the sense that anyone can generate images, but not everyone can make cohesive or innovative work without technical skill and a clear point of view.

If you’re hesitant, treat it like any other medium. Use your own references, approach one question at a time, and iterate until the work looks like you, not like the tool. AI has made me infinitely more creative so I’d encourage artists not to fear that it will make them more derivative. The opposite has been true for me!

And, of course, be ethical. Don’t use other artist’s work as image references. If you want to ensure that the AI isn’t being trained on work you upload, and that it wasn’t trained on other people’s work without their permission, use a commercially safe model like Adobe Firefly.

Q: If you could create an AI-generated jewelry collection that doesn't have to exist in the physical world, what materials would you experiment with?

A: I am actually doing this now! I’ve been working with some amazing artisans to bring a jewelry collection to life that captures the materiality of the AI work with colorful, chaotic precious and semi-precious gemstones and enamel. The collection will be launching in 2026!

For more information on Becky Constantinides, visit her portfolio page!