Collapsed Icon / Soft Refusal is generated from Unseen Custodian (inv. AMPC2022003), photographed and fed into an early generative model with Lankina’s constant “God is a woman…” prompt. The AI returns a figure with softened structure: shoulders tilt inward, the neck withdraws, and the entire body feels as if it is sliding away from the pose it was meant to hold. The face is serene but unreachable, more suggestion than portrait.

Printed onto Instax Mini film, the piece becomes a quiet, handheld icon of withdrawal. “Collapsed Icon” acknowledges the way the figure seems to crumple around its own center, while “Soft Refusal” names the subtle agency in that collapse. Within Deities and oddities. this deity reads as a counter gesture — a mythohuman body gently refusing its assigned form.

AI generated image printed on Fujifilm Instax Mini color film, 1/1, created using a photograph of the painting Unseen Custodian (inv. AMPC2022003, Archetypes on Quiet Ground) as image input together with the recurring prompt “God is a woman. Freckles. Bare skin. Linen. Crack in plaster. Love over death. Inspiration over desperation. Surrealistic interpretation,” then printed onto Instax Mini instant film as a one of one artifact.