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brainstorming in Midjourney

(that’s a different project at the bottom.. I do a fair bit simultaneously tbh)

trying new terms

trying in DALL-E2 to see what I get

realized I wanted to explore how I relate to Christ, to see myself in Him just as a way of exploring the idea of being made in GOD’s image the idea of being the body of Christ

I liked the hair from one image but the face of another so I bring them into photoshop [not pictured] to combine the two.

(don’t have any photoshop pictures because I didn’t save the file, I tend to work quick and sorta scrappy, I just combined them, exported a png and plugged it into DALL-E2 to work with)

here you can see me trying again to see if DALL-E2 can do anything better with the hair lol.

Notice how the “original” image has the hair erased which tells DALL-E it can only work in that empty space. It then gives me four options to choose from.

by this point I’d combined the hair in photoshop myself and was trying to expand the canvas downward.

Again, you can see that I’m erasing while expanding.

DALLE-2 only technically works in squares so you sorta fenagle it, leaving in just enough parts of the image you already have in order to influence the style, then erasing parts you want it to generate.

here’s me finding the image I liked. I was struck because it looked like Judas to me and I loved the idea of exploring that relationship.

I interpreted it as Judas turning his back on Christs divinity. Which was already an idea I’d been exploring elsewhere. I forget the exact text prompts I was using but I was trying a lot of words like “atonement, divinity, saints” etc

just an example of the sea of options and choices

me finding first part of the lower half I liked

exploring variations

again just an example of deleting parts, adding prompts, and expanding the canvas downward.

[I then have to take these and merge them together in photoshop like little puzzle pieces] NOTE: DALLE-2 can merge/extend them sort of too in their workflow but it’s sometimes feels more limiting to me.

then I translate it onto big slabs of cardboard using a projector. I find the cardboard around the city on my walks. This was a big Samsung TV box I found and I liked the idea that it was made to carry a television (something that displays content and drowns us in advertisements/consumerism) and repurposing it to tell its own story, display and carry it’s own meaning and message. Also the relationship between the saints being themselves inside this consumerist product packaging, looking up at Christ who is ALSO packaged in it, and that this package is literally undone and opened up, etc.