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And all were touched by the fire
(the falseness of) memories, AI-algorithms and family.
In 2018 I started with analogue photography, the same year my family went through a traumatic event. It was that same year that my stepdad was convicted for arson and had to serve time in prison.
A difficult period that isn’t really talked about.
Using my analogue photos from that time, I trained a LoRa to generate images similair to the ones I took in 2018. Using this LoRa and a custom workflow in ComfyUI, I made a collection of AI-pictures of flames and burning, to create a visual timeline of the events that happened but were never captured.
I then printed a combination of my own pictures and the generated pictures on transparencies and put them in 35mm slide frames. The final project was presented as a a single carriage of slides, played through the projector, slowly fading from everyday pictures of a family, to a sea of flames.
Playing with notions of what we belief is real and what is not.
Asking the question of how we remember the past.
And wondering how we can grief the unseen.