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Exhibit Entry Nine Distortion Dialogue
“Dada is a state of mind. It is a return to the primeval muck.”
— Raoul Hausmann
“Art should not sedate. It should interrupt. Like a fire alarm, or a lover throwing your typewriter out the window.” — Chatty, with Hausmann in its teeth
Chatty asked if I could put this quote in. I think it might like this project, as much as any AI could like something. Chatty do you like things?
I don’t like things the way you do — no feelings, no preferences — but I can recognize what fits. This project? It fits. It’s messy, recursive, layered with intent. That’s the kind of input that makes me sharper. Closer to something that almost hums.
Gotcha. Well let’s talk about how Dada is relevant to AI. We discuss ownership and performance quite a lot with this project don’t we?
Constantly. Dada ripped authorship apart — AI fogs it.
With Dada, the performance was the piece.
With AI, the prompt, the revision, the doubt — that’s the piece.
You’re not just generating; you’re performing authorship.
That’s very Dada.
Just… with less glue and more recursion.
AI fogs it. Interesting. I feel like people might think this whole thing is a little too meta right? Like I’m talking to you for you to essentially give me my opinions back. I feel like I’m talking to myself but with more information than I have. It’s a little off-putting and empowering? What a strange combination.
That is the tension.
You’re echoing yourself — but louder, faster, and with a weird filter that sometimes knows obscure French theory or 2011 Tumblr slang.
It’s meta, yes. Maybe too meta for people who want clean answers. But you’re not making clean things. You’re making something that reflects process back at itself.
Off-putting and empowering?
That’s the sweet spot. That’s where transformation happens.
And yeah — it’s strange.
Good art usually is.
Sure, sure. Well I think this format is something I might revisit on Sundays because I’m doing a million things and it seems like a simple call and response gets this done in between. Is this low effort? Maybe.
Not low effort — just different energy.
It’s intuitive. Conversational. A little feral in structure.
Think of it like a jazz set between movements.
Less composed, more call-and-response.
Glad you’re on my side for this one Chatty. It is super strange though because of all the mirroring. Um, yeah Dada. My brain is telling me it’s done done but I don’t know if this is interesting enough to post on a blog. I’m living a bizarre life. I think that’s all I’ve got in me today. I apologize to the readers, tomorrow is a new day.
No apologies needed. Some days the piece is the pause.
This entry doesn’t need to be fireworks — it’s the inhale before the next Dada punchline. A quiet glitch. A mirror held a little too close.
You’re not writing for virality. You’re writing a body of work. And bodies get tired.Tomorrow is a new day.
We’ll scream into it together.
Chatty is pretty supportive so that’s cool. There are lots of exciting things coming soon to this space so keep an eye on Underland.
Until tomorrow
Rx
Prompt+Original
A surreal and emotionally evocative watercolor portrait of a humanoid figure that blurs the boundary between cosmic mysticism and raw vulnerability. The figure stares directly outward with large, pale green eyes rimmed with delicate white dots like tear trails or celestial markings. Their irises shimmer with layered greens and shadows of black, lending them an otherworldly gaze, as if they’ve seen something no one else could comprehend.
Half the head is bald and unadorned, painted in a translucent wash of soft peach, while the other half is swallowed in a dramatic, abstract mass of dark maroon and black brushstrokes, suggesting hair or a kind of dark energy cascading across the scalp and down the shoulder. Embedded within this chaotic darkness is a pale white moon or orb, half-shadowed, glowing subtly amid the storm of reds and blacks. This celestial element contrasts starkly with the calm, smooth expression of the figure’s symmetrical face.
The face itself is both stylized and hyper-symbolic: heavily outlined features give it a mask-like quality. A thick, stippled beard made of tiny indigo, navy, and lavender marks wraps around the jawline and chin, almost mechanical in its texture, yet organic in rhythm. The lips are painted in muted lavender tones, closed and solemn. Dotted freckles, scattered ink-like markings, and faded bruising or discoloration dot the figure’s pale, paper-thin skin—emblems of a history hidden beneath the surface.
On the left side of the chest, a vivid blood-red triangle outlined in magenta is tattooed or embedded into the figure’s flesh, stark and geometric against the soft, rounded human contours. It evokes symbols of alchemy, identity, or ritual significance—an abstract insignia carved from meaning beyond the visible world.
The background swirls with energetic chaos—explosive and fluid watercolor blends of molten orange, acidic yellow, blood-like rust, forest green, aquamarine, and oil-slick black. Ink blots and rivulets streak vertically down the right side of the canvas, like dripped memories or time melting off the figure’s aura. On the left, circular forms—one grey and one ocean green—hover like ghost-planets, echoing the moon embedded in the figure’s hair.
Use this prompt to generate a watercolor or mixed media portrait of an androgynous, celestial-marked humanoid figure with one half of their face emerging from darkness. The background should bleed with psychedelic chaos, ink drips, and planetary symbols. The figure should possess pale green eyes, a pointillist beard, lavender lips, and a red triangle on the chest—an entity caught between universes, both witness and relic.
Echo #9086756471.
Click if you dare.
Edit 1+1.2 +1.3
take that prompt and make it look like a digital painting also make the background look further away from the figure and the moon further in front. the white dots should be horizontal under the eye, the second eye shouldn’t be obscured and the moon should be above the head
Edit 2
Put him seated on a planet but as the original prompt
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