Vilka (aka somm_bird) is an Australian-based creative working across AI-generated image and motion.

With a background in visual merchandising and UX design, her work explores constructed form through a mix of natural elements and digitally built components. Her process involves assembling and refining imagery across multiple tools, often creating symmetrical, object-driven compositions.

Her recent work continues to explore reconstruction, movement, and the tension between the natural and the artificial.

Vilka (aka somm_bird) is a multidisciplinary creative with over 20 years in the fashion industry, specialising in visual merchandising and campaign direction. She has led creative execution and brand experience for iconic Australian labels, shaping how customers connect with fashion across physical spaces.

Expanding into UX/UI and AI-driven design in 2020, Vilka now blends industry expertise with emerging technology to craft digital experiences and future-facing visual concepts. Through somm_bird, her experimental platform, she explores the intersection of fashion, art, and technology, merging couture-inspired forms, abstract beauty and florals with digital experimentation to create surreal, fashion-driven visuals that embrace contrasts and the unexpected.

A brand ambassador for fashion apps Refabric: AI and FERMAT app, her work has been featured on WGSN, at Premier Vision, shown in LA, London, Tokyo, Berlin, and Spain, was named a finalist at the 2024 global AI design awards, and a winner in this year's Spotlight Awards.

Title: Winged Muse

"Part fantasy, part rebellion, Winged Muse is an ode to the makeup artist as visionary. This piece captures the moment where beauty transcends cosmetics and steps into the realm of storytelling.

With wings delicately painted across the face, the work blurs the line between human and myth, daring the viewer to see makeup not as surface decoration but as a language of transformation. At its core, Winged Muse is a celebration of artistic courage. The wings are more than ornament; they are symbols of freedom, defiance, and creative flight. They whisper to every makeup artist: take risks, push boundaries, and step beyond the predictable.

In this piece, the face becomes both canvas and stage, a space where imagination can unfold without apology. Makeup artistry has always existed at the intersection of beauty and identity, but Winged Muse invites us to consider it as rebellion too. It reminds us that makeup can challenge conventions, shift perceptions, and carry powerful narratives. To paint wings across a face is to declare that there are no limits, only possibilities."