RE.Generating Self

As the title suggests, the following images present faux (i.e. AI-generated) self portraits, through which I re-visit the ‘imaginarium’ of The Cream of the Dream series, proposing storyboard-like sketches / tableaux vivants for a nonexistent experimental film from the past. In this introspective ‘void’ of anemoia, iconoclasm, myth-dissolution, and wishful thinking, reality is suspended, as the soul screams for absolute freedom.

The Concept

The Cocoon

The Monolith

The Runner

The Vines

The Dreamer

The Dancer

The Unicorn

The Bath

The Hole

The Lamb

The Archer

The Cream of the Dream

My ‘creative repose’ through AI experimentation – a poor man’s version of a holiday or some such escapist activity (because reality sucks, that’s why) – continues with a series of nineteen dreamy and ‘creamy’ images which see human figures and recurring motifs, such as pearls, rocks and skulls, in compositions informed by experimental cinema, myths, fashion editorials, and 1950s/60s aesthetics, subverting religious themes and the application ‘guidelines’ by way of deliberate (homo)eroticism.

Featuring the likenesses of Maude Fealy, Veronica Lake, Forrester Millard and an anonymous (French?) boxer (Engelmann), from the photos found in the public domain.

Sweet Dream

Angel

Desert Milk

The Conch

The Mermaid

Trinity

Whispers

One Step Higher

Benediction

St Erotica

Apotheosis of a Dialogue

The Keepers

A Pearl for Your Thought

Sleep’s Embrace

Butterfly

Meditation

The Milky Sea

The Spiral

The Meadow

28 Shades Queerer?

 “Nudity is an art. Besides, art is only nudity.”
 Raúl Ruiz, Three Crowns of the Sailor, 1983

A natural... pardon, artificial continuation of 40 Shades of Queer, this set of eerily realistic images brought forth by Gemini marks another stab at unapologetic homoeroticism by way of a subconscious exploration, challenging the viewers to look beyond the nude male bodies, and leaving them with a lingering sense of “beautiful unease”, as AI assistant notes in one of its reviews.

“Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.”
René Magritte

models: Forrester Millard and anonymous (French?) boxer (Engelmann)
guest star (Torn Apart): Steve Reeves

The Mirror

Arrow & Lace

The Rope

The Absence of the Room

The Ring

The Duality of the Key

Balloon

Hell?

A Drop of Water

The Thirst

The Sea of Chocolate

Teacups of Gold

Torn Apart

Rain

Brightest Light

The Green Room

The Circus Comes to Town

Left of Adam

Gabriel

Tritonic Desire

Kolovrat

The Egg or the Key?

Dance for Me

The Kiss

Running Free

Übermensch

Surprise!

The Pyramid