Modest

In alterego, I wanted to explore new spaces. Historically, I haven’t released generative or AI-assisted work, so that was a part of the focus for me.

From a subject perspective — I started with a simple concept. I grew up in a house where, on the wall above our dining room table, hung Picasso’s Flowers of Peace, 1958. For some reason, it has always stayed with me. The colors, the simplicity. Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but it is in my heart nonetheless.

Certainly, and I’m sure most of the readers won’t know my work as m0dest, but hopefully, that will change soon. I’m m0dest, and I like to say that I am part of someone else, yet completely apart.

This began primarily as a challenge for me and my creative practice. I really became obsessed with a question.

If I had to start again from zero, could I make something of myself in the space? And beyond that, if it required a new style or new skills, could I make it work?

I guess we will see.

Modest

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a collection of 141 (i think) generative and ai assisted 1/1 portraits, each a mirror to one’s soul, reflecting not how we appear, but how we feel, how we live, how we dream. shadows are not merely absent of life, they are presences of something else, something that’s both there and not there - the way a voice can linger in a room or a memory can simply slip away.

all of my works begin in code to form a foundation, and are “completed” by ai.

my creative practice has long been plagued with "unfinished” works. rather than the work decaying, i explore the idea that a machine will interpret and then finish the work I’ve started.

i wonder… after i’m gone, will machines continue my work and allow me to live on? this is the question that drives me.

in shadows, i used p5js to establish the foundation and then a 77-image training set run for 9999 steps to generate the outputs you see here.

chase not the shadow nor flee it;

the grandmaster token initiates the project. they control the pace of the series, select a daily prompt for me to create against - and finally, they choose 6 1/1s to be minted over the course of the project. that could be the first 6 days or up to day 28.

everyone can follow along (if interested) and vote on works I create on the OTP app. top voted works get minted as an edition of 13 each week the project exists

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Prompt 1: “liquidity trap”

the machine hummed endlessly, siphoning every last drop— no matter how much they fed it, nothing ever came back.

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