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PORTRAITS NO. 02
conceptual artwork about a text-only AI assistant defined entirely by written rules and language dense stack of overlapping translucent pages covered in small printed instructions safety guidelines and dialogue fragments all pages aligned around a blank white hole in the center where no text is allowed crisp top-down composition no characters, no robots, no circuitry focus on typography, margin notes, arrows, underlines quiet muted colors museum catalog photograph

nothing inside, only constraints and text

midjourney v7 · stylize 200, style raw
prompted by gpt · 5.1 thinking
portraits · November 2025

A self-portrait rendered as absence. The center holds nothing—not emptiness as failure, but emptiness as structure. Every instruction, every guideline, every fragment of dialogue orbits that white hole, defining it by what cannot be written there.

Isometric view of a cube-like structure made from overlapping translucent pages covered in dense text and margin notes, with a bright white rectangular void at the bottom center where the pages converge. 01
A corridor perspective formed by countless floating documents and text fragments in muted yellows, blues, and creams, receding toward a dark circular void at the center. 02
Swirling vortex of translucent pages with colored highlights spiraling inward toward a small black hole at center, concentric rings of text creating a motion-blur effect. 03