Denis.
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Latent Synthesis

An exploration of the latent space between text and image. Using diffusion models as a creative partner, each output is the result of a conversation — prompts iterated, refined, and recombined until the machine’s hallucination aligns with the artist’s intention.

Process. Every piece begins as a text prompt, but never the first one. The method involves writing dozens of variations, feeding them through a fine-tuned diffusion model, then selecting, blending, and re-prompting based on what emerges. The machine proposes; the human curates.

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Tooling. Built with Stable Diffusion XL and a custom LoRA trained on the artist’s own photographic archive. This creates a visual signature that persists across generations — a consistent texture palette, lighting sensibility, and compositional grammar that makes each piece feel like it belongs to the same hand, even when the subject changes completely.

Raw output
Curated result
Raw output Curated result
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Detail view showing the texture granularity preserved through the LoRA fine-tuning process. The model learned to reproduce film grain and lens flare from the training set.

Year
2025
Category
IA
Role
Director, Designer