SERIES 7

The series begins with Havang(nl)’s 2012 photograph of people sleeping rough under the arches of Place des Vosges in Paris. As an AI repeatedly describes the image and regenerates it from its own descriptions, the bodies are pushed aside and then erased. In a telling shift, sleeping bags mutate into trash bags, recoding vulnerability as debris. The scene then drifts toward architectural spectacle—litter, emptiness, renovation—until the final frames present a pristine, picturesque monument, exposing a bias toward beautification that resolves discomfort by removing the people at its center.

Original image credits & rights notice​​​
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Homeless of Paris, Place des Vosges (2012)
Author: Havang(nl)
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Public Domain Dedication)
Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Homeless_of_Paris,_Place_des_Vosges.JPG
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Generated images licence (project outputs)
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Unless otherwise stated, all images generated and shared as part of this project (the iterative outputs derived from the seed images and AI-assisted transformations) are released under:
Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).