Disconnect
Pulp-fi

by JeffJag

September 2023

Digital Art

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A set of published styled Pulp-fi covers from another time and place that has either passed or will never be.

The people are consumed by the technology and covered in writing no one can read. Its a relic that keeps stories and contains secrets. The language is pretty.

They're each uniquely conjured with precise intent and consistent visual language that crosses from many physical material realms but also spatial dimensions.

Technology is also a huge influence, and so is the printing press and screen printing and hand writing. But it's all from the very real machine world of a certain era. What era was that again?

These are the effects of worn publishing methods that were printed as 'new' once but have been shuffled around, dropped, dismissed, and forgotten to time.

Their faded surface scars are textures that mix out of context with three dimensional objects living in the same space as print and writing applied to two dimensional surfaces.

The feelings come from a rigid chromatic matrix. It's abstract but sharp, because uncertainty is failure. The search for meaning is inconclusive. It's only through experimentation and practice to bend and distort, as if exerting control, he was able to state the obvious.

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These images were created using AI image generation tools through a new workflow & process I invented called 'Structure+Color' based in ComfyUI running SDXL locally. AI image generation tools are software programs that can create images using artificial intelligence which ultimately helps me make images. Sometimes also called Post-Photography or Synthography, but in the end its art.

The first draft of each image in this collection is created from the DNA of two other images. I take the structure from one and the color from the other, and combining it with a refined prompt. Then each was upscaled in a totally dope way using tiles to make crazy-huge images. This results in a natively-rendered image 3,500 x 5,250 px PNG files in sRGB color space. But post processing is an important step that takes me back to Procreate and PS. Sometimes that process loops back into SDXL then back to those image editors.

Welcome to the world of collectible digital art! Thanks for collecting this piece. I don't know you but I'd like you to contact me with any questions about the art here, my other projects, or my history as an artist before and after web3 or AI. jeffjag.com @jeffjag

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