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“Among all phenomena, fire alone can so clearly bear the opposing values of good and evil. It shines in Paradise. It burns in Hell. It is gentleness and torture. It is cookery and it is apocalypse.”
— Excerpt from ‘The Psychoanalysis of Fire’ by Gaston Bachelard
Fire. It burns. It flares and dies in cycles—sometimes swelling until it devours everything, then vanishing without a trace. The flame reshapes itself ceaselessly, multiplying, at times leaving embers, at times nothing at all.
This work is an animation forged in a loop: generate an image of fire, erase whatever the algorithm deems “background,” regenerate new background, and repeat.
Digital technology—especially generative AI—, some people fear it; others are captivated; many flounder, unsure how to handle it. Still others, convinced of its world-altering potential, keep experimenting. Humanity must have felt the same spectrum of emotions when it first captured fire.
Fire rocketed civilization forward, yet it has also wrought countless material and human losses. Still, the modern fad of staring into campfires—“fire-gazing”—confirms its undiminished hold on us. Our stance toward generative AI may simply be a contemporary variation on humankind’s age-old ambivalence toward fire.
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