We Wait for the Pilearytix of the Abundance — DR McCulloch

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We Wait for the Pilearytix of the Abundance

Acrylic on ceramic. 76 × 40 cm.

£1,800Buy it at Fair Play Art Fair

The in-situ photos are what an agentic model generated prompts for and signed-off. They are neither to scale nor a judgement of your domestic context. They are retained for LOLs.

Prompt, model and seed

Scene: Back to Back
Brief: Above the bed, in the silence after.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a couple in pyjamas lying awake in bed with their backs turned to each other after a row, crumpled grey duvet, a phone charging on the floor, a mug of cold tea, clothes on a chair, cheap pine headboard, a painting hung on the wall above the bed, flat grey morning light through a broken venetian blind, amateur snapshot, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary plain faces, pale blotchy skin, tired, squalid, messy, dirty, stained, cluttered, lived-in, grubby, working class, analogue photo
Negative prompt: clean, neat, tidy, white bedding, crisp sheets, ikea, hotel room, airbnb, new furniture, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, professional photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, portrait photography, headshot, scandinavian interior, minimalist, interior design, staged, showroom, real estate photo, catalogue, beige luxury, clean, tidy, symmetrical, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 303
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
Wall repair: plain grubby painted wall surface, grey daylight, amateur snapshot (seed 310; inpaint at denoise 0.55 over a Telea fill, 24 steps, CFG 5, ControlNet inpaint_only+lama)
The work in the room: The real 76 × 40 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 260 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'daylight' grade; plane spread 2.5°.

Scene: Behind His Head
Brief: The view from the other end of the settee. You'll have to ask him to move.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a man slumped on a sofa watching television late at night seen from behind, the back of his head close to the camera, empty cans, a takeaway pizza box on the floor, blue tv glow, a painting hung on the wall above the sofa, amateur snapshot, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary plain faces, pale blotchy skin, tired, squalid, messy, dirty, stained, cluttered, lived-in, grubby, working class, analogue photo
Negative prompt: clean, neat, tidy, white bedding, crisp sheets, ikea, hotel room, airbnb, new furniture, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, professional photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, portrait photography, headshot, scandinavian interior, minimalist, interior design, staged, showroom, real estate photo, catalogue, beige luxury, clean, tidy, symmetrical, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 202
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
The work in the room: The real 76 × 40 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 200 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'tv' grade; plane spread 2.1°.

Scene: The Morning After the Gala
Brief: Over the chaise in a Kensington drawing room. The tiara is in the fruit bowl.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a middle aged socialite asleep on a silk chaise longue in a couture gown the morning after a charity gala, heels kicked off on a persian rug, a tiara in a fruit bowl, empty magnums of champagne, wilted orchids, a housekeeper tidying glasses in the background, tall sash windows, grey morning light, a painting hung on the wall above the chaise, amateur snapshot taken by a guest, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary unflattering faces, tired, expensive clutter, lived-in wealth, old money and new money, analogue photo
Negative prompt: interior design magazine, architectural digest, real estate photo, staged, showroom, catalogue, minimalist, empty, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 101
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
The work in the room: The real 76 × 40 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 280 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'daylight' grade.

Scene: His and Hers
Brief: Above the emperor bed in the guest suite, where he sleeps now.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a grey haired man in silk pyjamas sitting alone on the edge of a huge emperor bed in a guest suite scrolling his phone, untouched hotel style cushions, a tray of uneaten breakfast, a closed door, an expensive dressing gown on a valet stand, a painting hung on the wall above the upholstered headboard, flat grey light, amateur snapshot taken by a guest, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary unflattering faces, tired, expensive clutter, lived-in wealth, old money and new money, analogue photo
Negative prompt: interior design magazine, architectural digest, real estate photo, staged, showroom, catalogue, minimalist, empty, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 202
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
The work in the room: The real 76 × 40 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 260 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'daylight' grade.

Scene: The Cinema Room
Brief: On the wall of the basement cinema. He is watching the rugby.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, a man seen from behind slumped in a reclining leather cinema seat in a basement home cinema in a london mansion, the back of his head close to the camera, a wall of acoustic panelling, a mini bar fridge, a half eaten sushi platter, an empty bottle of claret, blue screen glow, a painting hung on the panelled wall, amateur snapshot taken by a guest, candid, unposed, real people, ordinary unflattering faces, tired, expensive clutter, lived-in wealth, old money and new money, analogue photo
Negative prompt: interior design magazine, architectural digest, real estate photo, staged, showroom, catalogue, minimalist, empty, render, 3d, cgi, illustration, painting, drawing, cartoon, anime, beautiful, pretty, model, glamour, fashion photography, perfect skin, flawless, studio lighting, picture frame, frame, label, box, plaque, border, television screen on the wall, watermark, text, logo, nsfw, nude, naked, topless, nipples, genitals, deformed, extra limbs, mutated hands, child, children, kid, toddler, baby, infant, teenager, teen, schoolgirl, schoolboy, young girl, young boy
Model: juggernaut_reborn (Stable Diffusion 1.5), VAE vae-ft-mse-840000-ema-pruned; ControlNet control_v11p_sd15_inpaint, preprocessor inpaint_only, weight 1.0
Seed: 202
Settings: Sampler DPM++ 2M, Karras schedule, 32 steps, CFG 7. img2img inpaint over a colour-blocked layout at denoise 0.9, 960 × 768 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+. Faces redrawn with ADetailer (face_yolov8n, denoise 0.38, "candid unposed face, natural skin").
The work in the room: The real 76 × 40 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 200 cm at the work), on the wall plane measured from DSINE surface normals and the room's vertical lines, relit from the light fitted around it, shadow cast from that light, then the 'tv' grade.