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Sometimes, even when you're using prompts to generate a sexy lady, you get an abstract oddity like this. Some models go wonky more than others. I like this wonky.

It reminds me of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. If I were a professional painter who set to painting someone communing with a Shrike of the Hyperion Cantos, it would not look like someone plunging into a floating futuristic telephone booth . . . but that's still the reference that feels right. This image is not 'completely' untouched, but I will count it as a preview since I still have not taken stylus-in-hand to fix anything. For this, I used in-painting to remove a third leg (not a euphemism).

What's clear here is a humanoid half-engulfed by some kind of exotic technology or alien entity in a garden. A Shrike per the actual Hyperion fiction, as far as I recall, would never be a mollusk-like teal shell-creature, but my (fading) memory of the story is that the Shrike would commune with each other, and maybe also their prey, in a telepathic kind of way. So, I present: Shrike as a mollusk-telephone-booth. The central figure might otherwise be a tuba-like instrument, or even an exo-skeletal weapon platform.

When it comes to abstract art, I like it more when multiple interpretations make equal sense. If you peek at my "legacy" gallery, this concept might be easier to grasp, although it seems I never uploaded my favorite abstract autonomist-driven sketches. I never had the patience to hone my drawing skills to the point where I could put what was in my brain on the page or canvas in front of me. Instead, I took a thick black gel pen and started with a line, or a curve, or a circle. Then, a zigzag, or a rectangle. Slowly, as the shapes piled atop one another, I would begin to see the outline of something interesting. Core lines would get drawn over five, six, seven or more times, becoming dominant in the composition. At the end, I would have a black-and-white study of chaos that might look like a flower bouquet held one way, or an alien brain when turned 90 degrees.

Tinkering with AI-generated images feels similar. The skill I did hone was creative writing. AI art generation first asks for words: for a series of tokens to stitch together in an attempt to transmit one's imagination onto a digital screen through the power of technology. Perhaps it's entirely natural that this is the first art-creation I have taken seriously in more than a decade. It is my words that get me 95-98% of the way to the finished piece... and then, a few digital image editing techniques later, I have successfully transferred an artistic idea from mind to byte-based matter.

Description
Sometimes, even when you're using prompts to generate a sexy lady, you get an abstract oddity like this. Some models go wonky more than others. I like this wonky.

It reminds me of Hyperion by Dan Simmons. If I were a professional painter who set to painting someone communing with a Shrike of the Hyperion Cantos, it would not look like someone plunging into a floating futuristic telephone booth . . . but that's still the reference that feels right. This image is not 'completely' untouched, but I will count it as a preview since I still have not taken stylus-in-hand to fix anything. For this, I used in-painting to remove a third leg (not a euphemism).

What's clear here is a humanoid half-engulfed by some kind of exotic technology or alien entity in a garden. A Shrike per the actual Hyperion fiction, as far as I recall, would never be a mollusk-like teal shell-creature, but my (fading) memory of the story is that the Shrike would commune with each other, and maybe also their prey, in a telepathic kind of way. So, I present: Shrike as a mollusk-telephone-booth. The central figure might otherwise be a tuba-like instrument, or even an exo-skeletal weapon platform.

When it comes to abstract art, I like it more when multiple interpretations make equal sense. If you peek at my "legacy" gallery, this concept might be easier to grasp, although it seems I never uploaded my favorite abstract autonomist-driven sketches. I never had the patience to hone my drawing skills to the point where I could put what was in my brain on the page or canvas in front of me. Instead, I took a thick black gel pen and started with a line, or a curve, or a circle. Then, a zigzag, or a rectangle. Slowly, as the shapes piled atop one another, I would begin to see the outline of something interesting. Core lines would get drawn over five, six, seven or more times, becoming dominant in the composition. At the end, I would have a black-and-white study of chaos that might look like a flower bouquet held one way, or an alien brain when turned 90 degrees.

Tinkering with AI-generated images feels similar. The skill I did hone was creative writing. AI art generation first asks for words: for a series of tokens to stitch together in an attempt to transmit one's imagination onto a digital screen through the power of technology. Perhaps it's entirely natural that this is the first art-creation I have taken seriously in more than a decade. It is my words that get me 95-98% of the way to the finished piece... and then, a few digital image editing techniques later, I have successfully transferred an artistic idea from mind to byte-based matter.