Chibuelassa Guides the Pilgrims — DR McCulloch

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Chibuelassa Guides the Pilgrims

Ink on ceramic tile. 15 × 15 cm.

£420

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: Close Mouth
Brief: Hung in a tenement hall between the pram and the bikes. You'll have to move the pram.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, narrow glasgow tenement flat hallway jammed with a pushchair, two bikes, a scooter, piles of shoes, a bag of nappies, a buggy board, coats on the newel post, a small ceramic tile hung on the wall halfway down, grey daylight from a stained glass door, tired old carpet, 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, nsfw, nude, naked, underwear, bath, swimsuit, adult objects, alcohol, cigarettes, sex toy
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, 768 × 960 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+.
Foreground: a battered folded pushchair and a child's bike blocking the hallway, out of focus foreground, amateur snapshot, depth of field (seed 102; inpaint at denoise 1.0 from latent noise, 30 steps, CFG 6.5, ControlNet inpaint_only weight 0.4)
Wall repair: plain grubby painted wall surface, grey daylight, amateur snapshot (seed 108; inpaint at denoise 0.55 over a Telea fill, 24 steps, CFG 5, ControlNet inpaint_only+lama)
The work in the room: The real 15 × 15 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 210 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 2.0°.

Scene: Gran's
Brief: Above the budgie, between the Pope and the wedding photo.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, an old woman asleep in an armchair with a crossword on her lap, a budgie in a cage, lace doilies, porcelain dogs on the shelf, a picture of the pope, a wedding photo, a teasmade, swirly patterned carpet, a two bar electric fire, a small ceramic tile hung on the floral wallpaper above the budgie cage, faded 1990s kodak print, 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
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 15 × 15 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 230 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 'kodak' grade; plane spread 0.9°.

Scene: Notting Hill Hall
Brief: In a hall with a Bugaboo, a Labrador and four sets of ski boots.
Prompt: wide angle photo of the whole room taken from across the room, full figures, floor visible, the long entrance hall of a notting hill townhouse jammed with a designer pram, a scooter, four pairs of ski boots, hunter wellies, a labrador on a tartan dog bed, a stack of delivery parcels, a stone floor, a small ceramic tile hung on the wall halfway down, grey daylight from a fanlight, 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
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, 768 × 960 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+.
Foreground: an expensive designer pram and a pile of ski boots blocking the hallway, out of focus foreground, amateur snapshot, depth of field (seed 102; inpaint at denoise 1.0 from latent noise, 30 steps, CFG 6.5, ControlNet inpaint_only weight 0.4)
The work in the room: The real 15 × 15 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 210 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.