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https://www.lalouver.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Gajin-Fujita-Angelic-Intervention-AI-2023.jpg14641080L.A. Louver Celebrates 50 Years contains two large-scale recent paintings by Los Angeles artist Gajin Fujita. In Angelic Intervention (AI) (2023), Fujita presents two putti, infant cherubim most frequently found in Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings. Tattooed with cherry blossoms and peonies rendered in the traditional Japanese style, the angels reference the multicultural landscape of Los Angeles, Fujita’s home and a major source of inspiration for his work. The angels lounge on ombre clouds, PlayStation controllers in hand, leading viewers to humorously imagine what worldly events gamers intervene upon. The work’s title riffs on the acronym AI (artificial intelligence) and creates a dichotomy between two realms that wield power over humanity—technology and religion.