Reluctant Muse / System Lag begins with Scrape Offering / 72 x 36’ (inv. 8APMMC16187236), photographed and used as image input inside an early AI model with Lankina’s repeated incantation. The system attempts a classic muse-like pose — turned body, soft drape, face in partial profile — but the figure refuses to stabilize: the torso leans, the shoulders glitch, and the space behind her stutters between two incompatible geometries.

Printed on Instax Mini film, the hesitation remains intact. “Reluctant Muse” reflects the partial withdrawal inside the pose, and “System Lag” names the temporal drag inside the image. Within Deities and oddities. this deity embodies the friction between mythic ideal and computational delay.

AI generated image printed on Fujifilm Instax Mini color film, 1/1, created using a photograph of the painting Scrape Offering / 72 x 36’ (inv. 8APMMC16187236, The Ascension Codex, Make Me Pure Just Not Yet) 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.