shadows046

In the syrupy glow of sunset, his shadow stretched itself thin and long across the tired old bricks, like some lanky, reluctant confidant.

It was as much a part of him as his own skin, yet it lived its own silent, separate life, a smudge of darkness in a world too bright for truth.

This shadow knew all the quiet corners of his soul, the places where joy and sorrow melted together into a sort of gentle, enduring gray.

It followed him, a loyal echo of each weary step, a silent witness to the absurdity and beauty of simply being.

As the light faded, the shadow seemed to stand a moment longer, a dark, fleeting monument to the man it had quietly observed, a man whose every breath was a poem written in the secret language of shadows.

And then, like everything else, it slipped away into the tender arms of the universe, leaving behind nothing but the faint memory of having been.

~ on shadows by m0dest

a collection of 192 generative and ai assisted 1/1 portraits, each a mirror to one’s soul, reflecting not how we appear, but how we feel, how we live, how we dream. shadows are not merely absent of life, they are presences of something else, something that’s both there and not there - the way a voice can linger in a room or a memory can simply slip away.

all of my works begin in code to form a foundation, and are “completed” by ai. my creative practice has long been plagued with "unfinished” works. rather than the work decaying, i explore the idea that a machine will interpret and then finish the work I’ve started. i wonder… after i’m gone, will machines continue my work and allow me to live on? this is the question that drives me. in shadows, i used p5js to establish the foundation and then a 77-image training set run for 9999 steps to generate the outputs you see here. Trait and attribute system will be revealed soon.

Category Art