False Memories: In conversation with Lui

Acrylic transfer 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: B-Side
Brief: Propped against the stereo on a bedsit floor, among the CDs it pretends to be.
Prompt: close up photo, close up of a bedsit floor, a small ceramic tile leaning against a cheap black hi-fi stereo, a pile of scratched cds out of their cases, a cracked jewel case, a can of cider, rolling papers, a glowing lava lamp, a sock, cigarette burns on the carpet, harsh flash, 2001, 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 0.86, 832 × 832 px; the work's footprint kept blank. Upscaled ×2 with R-ESRGAN 4x+.
The work in the room: The real 15 × 15 cm work placed at true scale (the frame spans about 70 cm at the work), on the leaning 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 'flash' grade; plane spread 1.1°.

Scene: Fridge Door
Brief: Stuck to the fridge with a Benidorm magnet, between the Chinese menu and the council tax.
Prompt: close up photo, close up of a grubby white fridge door crammed with takeaway menus, fridge magnets, a council tax letter, a faded polaroid, a crayon drawing, a dentist appointment card, a bottle opener magnet, sticky finger marks, a small ceramic tile stuck to the fridge door with magnets, harsh flash, kitchen at night, 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: 202
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+.
Wall repair: plain grubby painted wall surface, harsh flash, amateur snapshot (seed 209; 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 70 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 'flash' grade; plane spread 1.2°.