Degradation 🎨
This began as precision.
Images, coaxed into being by prompts with slowly degrading text prompts. The instructions themselves and the algorithmic process began to introduce more and more noise.
Degradation is what happens when we reverse the diffusion process of text-to-image generation. The image is born of noise, and returns to noise.
The result: a looping entropy. Birds that flock into a melting streak of abstraction. A piano that smears into a grid of noise. A cathedral made of feathers, or a feather made of cathedrals.
Noise to noise.
Date: 2022
Tools: Stable Diffusion, img2img looping pipeline
Process: Recursive re-prompting with increasing noise
Iterations: 120
Artifacts: The crows have eyes
