Portrait of Masimba Hwati
Cyanotype on handmade paper, hand-perforated, 2021

Photographed in front of the Gauforum at the parade ground in Weimar using a large-format analog camera.

I have created the series "Echoes of Oblivion" by merging classical inspiration with modern technology. In my creative process, I utilize Disco Diffusion, an advanced platform that employs artificial intelligence to transform written text into visual artworks. This platform integrates technologies like OpenAI's CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training), which understands text and images within a shared embedding, and VQ-GAN (Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network), which facilitates the creation of high-resolution images.

This technology allows me to develop unique visual concepts that honor the past while portraying the unpredictability of the future. By training my own model in Disco Diffusion, I gain the freedom to explore specific aesthetic preferences and nuanced interpretations that would be unreachable through conventional media. The result, which I develop as a cyanotype, is not only a homage to the origins of photography but also an exploration of the interplay between old and new, light and shadow, memory and oblivion.

Portrait of Masimba Hwati
Cyanotype on handmade paper, hand-perforated, 2021

Photographed in front of the Gauforum at the parade ground in Weimar using a large-format analog camera.

I have created the series "Echoes of Oblivion" by merging classical inspiration with modern technology. In my creative process, I utilize Disco Diffusion, an advanced platform that employs artificial intelligence to transform written text into visual artworks. This platform integrates technologies like OpenAI's CLIP (Contrastive Language–Image Pre-training), which understands text and images within a shared embedding, and VQ-GAN (Vector Quantized Generative Adversarial Network), which facilitates the creation of high-resolution images.

This technology allows me to develop unique visual concepts that honor the past while portraying the unpredictability of the future. By training my own model in Disco Diffusion, I gain the freedom to explore specific aesthetic preferences and nuanced interpretations that would be unreachable through conventional media. The result, which I develop as a cyanotype, is not only a homage to the origins of photography but also an exploration of the interplay between old and new, light and shadow, memory and oblivion.