When the sun is still high overhead, just before the heat of the day reaches its peak, the best place to be is in the shade of a forest canopy sitting near a floral thicket and enjoying the birdsong carried by a gentle breeze.

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This piece is a 1/1 resulting from a series of experiments with 3 different AI algorithms: ruDALLE, Disco Diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Over several months, images were generated from experiments with different prompts and curated. These curations were then used as initialization images in the next set of experiments in the newer protocol. Each progression offered more accuracy in being able to create the scenes that Maneki originally set out to make. As close as these have come to that "straight from the AI", there is still some collage of several versions and edits in Photoshop to finish them.

The pieces in this collection are a result of a determination to render particular bits of imagination through perseverance of continued experimentation with new AI tools and a bit of serendipity in finding the right combination of prompt terms, settings and seeds to capture those visions in pixels.

Digital image: 7000x7000px