‘What didn’t you do to bury me, but you forgot I was a seed.’ — Dinos Christianopoulos

SEED is a meditation on the words of Christianopoulos’ couplet, unearthing the identity that emerges from fragmented memory, silenced voices, and buried histories.

Implanting a minoritized data set within a LAION-trained generative AI model, the process for creating SEED leans on a recursive digital dialogue to negotiate the territories of influence between an obscured source and the imposition of a dominant code. Each successive generation reflects a boundary condition on which the concept of ‘becoming’ is contested.

SEED continues an ongoing series of explorations drawing from the aboriginal histories and artifacts of the artist’s Taiwanese heritage, reflecting on themes of identity, erasure, and reclamation in a world shaped by the echoes of silenced narratives.

This work is donated to Breezy Art and is part of the permanent socio-historical collection CRITICIZE BY CREATING.