From 52bd7f2505b4f6630fae43886b461879371146a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Collin Dutter <collin@griptape.ai>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:05:35 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use artifact encoding for images

---
 griptape/artifacts/image_artifact.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/griptape/artifacts/image_artifact.py b/griptape/artifacts/image_artifact.py
index 82c47c0448..52ac2fcf43 100644
--- a/griptape/artifacts/image_artifact.py
+++ b/griptape/artifacts/image_artifact.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class ImageArtifact(BlobArtifact):
 
     @property
     def base64(self) -> str:
-        return base64.b64encode(self.value).decode("utf-8")
+        return base64.b64encode(self.value).decode(self.encoding)
 
     @property
     def mime_type(self) -> str: