Michael Jacobs Fine Art

08/26/2026

More fine art available! After Hours: Nighthawks in Emoji (https://www.mjacobsfineart.com/shop/p/after-hours-nighthawks)

08/24/2026

I have new fine art available https://www.mjacobsfineart.com/shop/p/girl-emoji-earring

08/23/2026

Looking for something to help you sleep? I received word today that my Diamojism technology paper has been peer reviewed and will be published in The Visual Computer academic journal!

The preproduction copy:

Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.

07/30/2026

I am happy to share that my 'A Sunday on La Grande Emoji' was selected for the nationally acclaimed Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition.

Minnesota’s largest juried art exhibition showcases more than 300 of the finest pieces of artwork selected from thousands entered by artists throughout the state. In 2025, a total of 2,836 pieces were submitted, and 336 works were accepted.

06/16/2026

Botticelli's Birth of Venus as an emoji mosaic

Birth of Emoji is built from 24,088 tiles drawing on 986 unique emoji. It required 31 artist regions — more than any Diamoji to date — and introduced full color calibration to the process for the first time. Botticelli's sfumato technique made none of this straightforward.

06/10/2026

Number 4 in my Diamoji Portfolio:

Van Gogh painted the night sky as pure energy — swirling, structured, alive. Recreating that in emoji turned out to be the hardest problem I've faced in Diamojism. Here's how it got solved.

06/05/2026

Seurat built A Sunday on La Grande Jatte from 3.5 million dots of pure color. This one took 14,691 emoji — 1,748 unique symbols, chosen tile by tile for color, edge, and form.

05/29/2026

The hardest Diamoji project yet. It took 53 iterations over 9 days resulting in 15,525 tiles and several new software features and tools.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the most recognized images ever made. Rendering it as a Diamoji meant solving problems no portrait had ever asked for — and building three new capabilities to do it. This is the story of how a wave became 15,525 emoji tiles, and what it took to get there.

05/19/2026

Step closer. At distance, you see a portrait. Up close, you see what it's made of — thousands of individual emoji tiles, densest right here, at the eyes.

That's not an accident. I configured the system to give the eyes its finest resolution above everywhere else in the image. Not because the algorithm decided eyes matter. Because I did. The eyes are where we look first — I encoded that instinct, and the pipeline executed it.

What the system placed here to render her gaze — in tones it was searching for, not meanings it understood — is something worth zooming into yourself.

Learn more at https://www.mjacobsfineart.com/diamojism

05/18/2026

This is Emoji Lisa — the Mona Lisa reconstructed entirely from emojis.
No AI image generator. No filter. No source image bleeding through. Every tone, every gradient, every subtle curve of the mouth is carried by symbols — the same pictographs you use every day to express what words sometimes can't.

The system selected each of the 6,873 tiles for color and structure, not meaning. That it placed ❤️ and 💋 near her smile without being told to is not a feature. It is what happens when you build a portrait from a language that was never meant to be neutral.

Emoji Lisa is available as a limited edition print at mjacobsfineart.com