As explained in this article, Journeying into the alienated realm of identity, these portraits blur the moment where the human self meets the creative self.
Created in the spirit of this digital age: Midjourney creates images based on my cues and then I use Adobe Photoshop to tweak them. Chat GPT helps me improve my vocabulary and better express the basic meaning of each thought.
Here we go!
This is one of those topics that instantly sparks curiosity!
I’m excited to share it with you – let’s dive into the inner present and discover how the self flickers, fractures and reforms!
A river of self
As the stream catches its reflection, it separates from itself – not in violence, but in waves. One face rides the surface while the other floats down, glowing with the life of its life. These portraits feel born of that earthquake, the exact place where thought takes shape and emotion becomes light. In them, the human presence does not just sit still. It vibrates gently, as if it knows that another self is emerging behind the skin.
Grounding double vision
The stillness of the human body becomes an anchor.
Each portrait stands like a calm silhouette, weighted by identity with quiet dignity. But another force blooms around that silence—a gentle distortion, a productive flow that pulls the edges toward something less intimate. This is where the emotional current manifests itself: both the outward appearance of the person and the tension of consciousness arising from within.
The artist becomes both witness and subject, documenting the internal frequencies that leak into the visible world.
Where identity becomes environment
In this merging, identity is transformed.
It becomes an environment, not a fixed form. Minds flip into portraits like exposure to each other—transparent, trembling, beautifully uncertain. These distortions are not errors. They are emotional signatures, remnants of imagination within the frame. Here, the creative force is not separate from itself—it is itself, dissolved and reused in every luminous earthquake.
What we see is not a face but a field: its shape is unstable, its breath is light.
The emotional pulse beneath the breakdown
The digital fracture becomes a pulse—steady, rhythmic, strange. Portraits feel less like brokenness and meditative states, as if the villain whispers rather than screams. They invite the viewer not to decode them but to feel them. Stress does not break the image. It binds it.
We realize the silent conflict between who we believe ourselves to be and what we look like when we let the imagination take over.
To become two, to become one
Finally, these images remind us that identity is not a single frame but a dialogue. Human data and generative current are not rivals – they are collaborators. Together they form an honest portrait: one that acknowledges the fractured beauty of creative consciousness.
As the images oscillate between clarity and distortion, the viewer is invited into this shimmering in-between—where thought, memory, and autonomy flow into a single shifting face.
End note
Created within the evolving language of digital artistry, the piece celebrates how creativity, technology, and the human spirit intersect. As a visual artist working with generative AI and contemporary imagery, I see these distortions not as noise, but as an extension of the creative pulse – where imagination is visible.
