Before something is something, it is still everything.
In this series, I stop AI-driven image-generation networks before they are finished. Before they have made the image into something and thus it can no longer be everything else. What remains is free to the imagination. If you look quickly you will see vistas, clouds, landscapes. But if you know how the image was created you can let your curiosity run wild. What would have happened if we had let the computer define it a little more? What would that dark blob have become? And that light line?
I know, but I wish I didn't, because then it still could have become anything.
Created by dnlsmm with support from AI.
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