INSANE ASYLUM, BELLMER'S DOLLS AND THE INNER LIFE OF THE ARTIST OTT...

“It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.”
― C.G. Jung
Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice

In these past two days, and particularly today, I ran a bunch of images on Nightcafe AI based on prompts I wrote over a year ago. Since then, new models came into being, and I was curious how these old results would look like with the newer models.

The Bellmer's Dolls Series

^{THE RADIATOR LADY FROM DAVID LYNCH'S NIGHTMARE SCARING THE KIDDIES
Alternate Title: Hülsenbeck's Children on a visit in the Cryptid Taxidermy Museum}

^{BELLMER DOLLS CAVORTING WITH ONE OF GIGER'S ALIENS}

^{BELLMER DOLL CONTORTIONIST DANCING THE RUMBA WITH ONE OF GIGER'S ALIENS}

^{THE REMNANTS OF BELLMER'S DOLL AFTER DIGESTION BY GIGER'S ALIEN}

^{CHICKENMONSTER HYBRID AT THE CRYPTID TAXIDERMY MUSEUM}
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^{GIGER'S MENACING TRANSFORMATION OF BELLMER'S DOLL - THE ALIEN CROSS-BREED}Below I post the intermediate stage from which I evolved the ones above. But there is a string of duplicates and evolves that precede it, which are iterations from the now defunct and deleted SD v2.1 model. This, and the SD 2.0 were replaced by DreamShaper v8. VZYqLFzqQzPYFAnbM6vG--1--f4bw5 (1).jpg

^{THE ALIEN CLOCK MONSTER MEETS DAVID LYNCH, GIGER AND THE BROTHERS QUAY IN BOGOMIL'S HIDEOUT - this is the intermediate stage with Dreamshaper v8}You can see where the overall design comes from, like the blue arc bottom left appears in one form or another on all the above.The buck stops there, because I duplicated the prompt without using the previous images.

Here are the preceding images that got the ball rolling
^{On previous creations I still evolved from these images}Which leads me to the part about the 'Inner Life of the Artist Otto Rapp', because after I ran these with my 'Inner Life' prompt, I later switched to the 'Bellmer Doll' prompt. Sounds confusing, and frankly, I confused myself at the time. The one that started the 'Inner Life' was this here:

^{UNPUBLISHED - THE INNER LIFE OF THE ARTIST OTTO RAPP
So you basically see it here first - below are the prompts I used}1) The Inner Life of the Artist Otto Rapp - his Alternate Reality in Bogomil's Universe; macrocosmic reflection, intricately detailed; Hieronimus Bosch, imperial colors, fantasy, International Gothic, oil painting, mysterious
2) "The longer I live the more convinced I am that our planet is used by others in this universe as a insane asylum" Max Ernst H.R. Giger Zdzisław Beksiński surrealism psychedelic art steampunk mixed media fantastical entangled futuristic zombiecore
3) Hans Bellmer's Dolls meet David Lynch Eraserhead in a surreal film with scene sets by H.R. Giger with the Alien and Cthulhu, partying with the lady in the radiator on the road to OZ following a frantic rabbit and Bellmer's cat did not survive and the chicken rules
^{After this, I eliminated promps 1 and 2 and arrived at what I posted at the start: BELLMER'S DOLLS}Now it starts to unravel as it should, so lets continue with the 'Inner Life' and also the 'Insane Asylum' where I used prompts 1 and 2 - here are a few more iterations (all so far unpublished):

The next one was quite different, but still the same prompt

similar style, where I seem to appear as a 'wizard' - like the above, the model was
RealVisXL v4 which seems to give me some good fantasy images

The images, created with the same prompt and the same model, become different when you change the prompt and weight percentages.

And here the root, where it started over 1 year ago

^{I just happened to dig way down in my files and found the SD v2.1 images}

^{TEA PARTY IN WONDERLAND 7b}

^{TEA PARTY IN WONDERLAND 7c}

^{TEA PARTY IN WONDERLAND 7d}

While these look quite different, since SD v2.1 was deleted, when I used them to evolve, Nightcafe converted it to DreamShaper v8, its successor. The seed image for the evolves did stay like this, but the more sophisticated SDXL and Lightning modes would, even at low or 0 noise percentage, interpret them, in conjunction with the prompt, very differently.

But that was not the bottom of the barrel. Going way back and following the evolve trail, these images appear, four creations with SD v1.5 called

INSANE ASYLUM OPERATING THEATER

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.... and the seed image for all these was a Seed from a classical painting by Stefan Lochner

28.09.2024_02.29.46_REC.jpg ^{Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
it took me a while to find out again where the image came from, this is the source:
https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/martyrdom-of-st-bartholomew}
That was the start of all this
I hope you enjoyed my trip down the memory lane

April 30, 2024 I published about the 'Insane Asylum' - this was what actually made me search the trail of similar posts:
INSANE ASYLUM RIOT ON PLANET X