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Strange Fruit #64

Collection

Pixie by Vadim Epstein

Description

Mal Som’s “Strange Fruit” is a masquerade of unfamiliar faces, appearing in a boldly colored procession with varied degrees of realism and abstraction. Blurry forms are replaced by four-eyed mask-like faces in a rhythm that takes us on a journey both frightening and introspective. The artwork explores the phenomenon of “mode collapse,” when only a single type of image is produced. It is not fully understood why this happens, only that it is a constant occurrence—the only constant in latent space. Som trains the model until a full collapse happens and then iterates on the dataset with augmenting, duplicating, and looping in generated images from previous instances to steer the collapse. This gives the series of images a certain sense of fragility and determination at the same time.

Traits

Artist

Mal Som

Series

Strange Fruit

Artwork of

88, 1 AP

Exhibition

Feral File - Reflections in the Water

Token

Contract: 0x29C9...58D6
Token ID: 105407197227404785108315597710184983582473381433138657116787723337294696804011

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