{"name":"Self-Portrait in Lunaria","created_by":"MIKEY. Woodbridge","external_url":"https://www.mikeywoodbridge.com","description":"\"Self-Portrait in Lunaria\" is part of a world I began making in October 2021. I had reached a point of crisis between the narratives of normality and the anarchy of creation. On the full moon of that month, I constructed a ritual of commitment to art, a vow to serve it, protect it, and to be lunatic enough to follow it wherever it lives. This ritual became a music video titled \"Lunaria,\" filmed with the support of my friends in Berlin. \n\nLunaria is the place that I try to surround with my voice when I sing, to articulate with my hands when I paint, to embody when I present myself in performance. In this Self-Portrait, I use the deep learning model Stable Diffusion to imagine myself into the world of Lunaria. \n\nStarting with photographs of myself from the music video \"Lunaria,\" I used image-to-image translation guided by text prompts to travel into Lunaria. Similar to the way that the Lunaria ritual was a means to resolve my higher self from the noise of expectation, this Self-Portrait resolves the avatar of my evolution from the noise of the diffusion model's latent space.\n\n\"Self-Portrait in Lunaria\" is both a reaffirmation of my vows and a marker of a new direction where my art is leading me. It presents a vision of what I might be if I were born within the world of Lunaria: how my body might be shaped on the Lunaria planet, and what the fashions might be like in the Lunaria society.","attributes":[{"trait_type":"Artist","value":"MIKEY. Woodbridge"},{"trait_type":"TYPE","value":"1/1"}],"image_details":{"bytes":9387738,"format":"PNG","sha256":"5ed267aceddaa65fb139f40f08a5c3e9a6a968d42b1c624509199fe2982ee0d9","width":3200,"height":3200},"image":"https://arweave.net/wwsN1RrRwjmZcXxSjJqXemboP4g7525Q_Rk09xVb52Q","image_url":"https://arweave.net/wwsN1RrRwjmZcXxSjJqXemboP4g7525Q_Rk09xVb52Q"}