Rug final edits and musings on my process
I always do this. I always make a strong first thing. And then feel the need to go through this really expansive process of developing it, only to circle back to my original idea. Sone good stuff does get generated in the interim, but I feel like I ought remember this next time.
The pink bunny was the first rug iteration. And it remains my favourite. It's both homely and slutty. Lurid and natural. But I do do do love the waves legs. That's what I'm keeping, because it adds a sense of dynamic surrealism. Like it's wobbling reality, just as is happening with AI. AI takes us into a post truth space. The wobble is the semiotic I was looking for to resolve it. So hurray for wobble. Everything does feel so wobbly and surreal now, psyche wise. Geopolitically we have so much abject horror and also the biggest TVs ever. Apparently the latter is good. I'm not so sure. The problem isn't the size of the TV. It's how we see. And what we are shown. And what we do with that. It feels like seismic change us coming. There are hige ripples in the fabric of society happening globally. Decades of moral rot and violence being revealed, that stands on centuries of cruelty, dishonesty and disharmony. Better is possible. I hope beyond hope that we navigate our wobble sagely and that we travel to better.
Below are some of my other experiments.
I used the above image as a start point and added the following prompt, turning up tne noise to 67% (noise refers to the applied deviation from the original image):
Generate a flat, 2D folk-art style illustration of an anthropomorphic rabbit character designed as a decorative rug template. The figure has a calm, stoic expression, expressive almond-shaped eyes, asymmetrical ears with character, and a simplified sculptural face. The body is stylized, clothed with simple garment shapes, non-realistic anatomy, bold outlines, and flat colors. Straight-on orthographic view, no perspective, suitable for tufted rug tracing.
Engine: Google Imagen 2.0.
