CREPUSCULAR OLD MAN

“One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite, that the future has no reality other than as a present hope, that the past has no reality other than as a present memory. Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified an mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process. Another, that the history of the universe — and in it our lives and the most tenuous detail of our lives — is the scripture produced by a subordinate god in order to communicate with a demon. Another, that the universe is comparable to those cryptographs in which not all the symbols are valid and that only what happens every three hundred nights is true. Another, that while we sleep here, we are awake elsewhere and that in this way every man is two men.”
Jorge Luis Borges

CREPUSCULAR OLD MAN MENACED BY HIS OWN THOUGHTS

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Variation of a text-prompt generation in AI Deep Dream. The text contained the words GIGER, MAX ERNST and SURREALISM.
The option of Text Prompt is a new feature on Deep Dream.
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Using a detail from one of my large paintings, engaging Giger as the copilot of the scene seems to habe brought forth a very interesting interpretation of my original. The text prompt strength was set to 40%

PROMPT (I actually recycled a prompt from an earlier work which actually was a drawing, but somehow the thought fit):
Giger painting the scene of the crying American elaborately framed by his despair and menaced by a bird pecking his brain. (Aside from Giger, I also had Max Ernst as a modifier)

Following this, I generated a second version with the same prompts and also at 40%, but at a higher resolution. It turned out differently, as I actually expected, since when you regenerate a new version will appear. However, it similarly stayed largely true to my seed image design.
But Version 3 at 60% departed quite a bit from my original seed image, though it reetained the basic layout.

CREPUSCULAR OLD MAN .... VERSION 2

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CREPUSCULAR OLD MAN .... VERSION 3

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There you have it, three versions from the same seed image. Of course I could go further, in increments of 10 up to 90% - maybe I do that sometime in future, but I had done it before with a drawing, and the 90% text strength basically left the drawing way behind and there was no semblance at all anymore.

This was my seed image, a detail from a large painting in my studio that had travelled unfinished with me from Canada to Austria in 2011, but had already been started at least a decade earlier.