Between Poses / Render Lag begins with Unseen Custodian (inv. AMPC2022003), photographed and used as image input within an early generative model alongside Lankina’s fixed “God is a woman…” incantation. The model interprets the painting’s soft shifts in tone and faint architectural pull by producing a body whose limbs and posture do not fully sync. Shoulders rotate one way while hips resist; the face appears mid transition, as if the model tried two options and kept both.
The AI image is then printed onto Instax Mini film where nothing is resolved, only miniaturized. “Between Poses” reflects the suspended moment inside the frame, while “Render Lag” names the hesitation inherent to the image. In the context of Deities and oddities. this work reads as a glitch of embodiment — a mythohuman figure not yet fully committed to its own anatomy.
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.