Stylized Painting of Figure Before Ornate Mirror

"Cogito, ergo sum vel Reductio ad Absurdum", tautologia recursiva captivi speculi vanitatis suae

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  "Cogito, ergo sum vel Reductio ad Absurdum", tautologia recursiva captivi speculi vanitatis suae
  
  Model: Photonic
  
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  Prompt: Pastel and charcoal +Modern setting and style A surreal, vividly colored scene of a philosopher seated in a contemplative pose, inspired by Descartes or Rodin’s Thinker, gazing into a tall ornate mirror. The mirror reflects the philosopher endlessly, creating a recursive mise en abyme effect. Each reflection introduces subtle playful distortions: in one, the figure wears red boxing gloves; in another, a small black rabbit appears; in another, a tabby cat sits calmly. The setting is richly detailed with curtains in bold colors (yellow, green, red) and eclectic wall art, blending domestic warmth with surreal symbolism. The atmosphere is coherent yet dreamlike, emphasizing the paradox of logic looping into itself. Style: modernist figurative, surrealist undertones, bold contrasts, poetic elegance.
  
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Prompt: Pastel and charcoal +Modern setting and style A surreal, vividly colored scene of a philosopher seated in a contemplative pose, inspired by Descartes or Rodin’s Thinker, gazing into a tall ornate mirror. The mirror reflects the philosopher endlessly, creating a recursive mise en abyme effect. Each reflection introduces subtle playful distortions: in one, the figure wears red boxing gloves; in another, a small black rabbit appears; in another, a tabby cat sits calmly. The setting is richly detailed with curtains in bold colors (yellow, green, red) and eclectic wall art, blending domestic warmth with surreal symbolism. The atmosphere is coherent yet dreamlike, emphasizing the paradox of logic looping into itself. Style: modernist figurative, surrealist undertones, bold contrasts, poetic elegance.

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+ Prompt: Black end white, pencil and ink sketche + light watercolor on textured vellum +Modern setting and style A surreal, vividly colored scene of a philosopher seated in a contemplative pose, inspired by Descartes or Rodin’s Thinker, gazing into a tall ornate mirror. The mirror reflects the philosopher endlessly, creating a recursive mise en abyme effect. Each reflection introduces subtle playful distortions: in one, the figure wears red boxing gloves; in another, a small black rabbit appears; in another, a tabby cat sits calmly. The setting is richly detailed with curtains in bold colors (yellow, green, red) and eclectic wall art, blending domestic warmth with surreal symbolism. The atmosphere is coherent yet dreamlike, emphasizing the paradox of logic looping into itself. Style: modernist figurative, surrealist undertones, bold contrasts, poetic elegance.

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"Cogito, ergo sum or Reductio ad Absurdum", the recursive tautology of those captive to the mirror of their own vanity.

by © emma cha

Mind folds into self,
mirrors breed their mirrored ghosts—
reason blurs to mask.

A seated figure applies makeup before an ornate mirror, yet every reflected layer dissolves into fragmented silhouettes. The space around ripples with abstract stains of color, merging portraiture, ego, and illusion. Reality, vanity, and logic collapse into a recursive visual paradox.

Artistic Statement:
This work fuses pop-surreal figuration with neo-expressionist stain fields, evoking traditions of self-portraiture confronted by abstraction. The mirror becomes a philosophical device, echoing the Baroque fascination with vanitas while adopting modern recursive and conceptual aesthetics.

Influences:
Francis Bacon for psychological distortion, David Hockney for spatial ambiguity, Egon Schiele for contoured figuration, Tamara de Lempicka for stylized elegance, and Gerhard Richter for oscillations between realism and abstraction.
Together they form a lineage of introspective yet fractured visual identity.

Tags: #aiart #cartesianparadox #deepdreamgenerator #emmacha #miseenabymeart #speculumvanitatis #surrealmodernism #tautologiarecursiva

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"Cogito, ergo sum or Reductio ad Absurdum", the recursive tautology of those captive to the mirror of their own vanity.
by © emma cha

Mind curls in circles,
mirrors dream their own logic—
self becomes echo.

A pop-surreal meditation where identity fractures inside an ornate mirror. The figure’s calm ritual of self-construction contrasts with drifting stain-fields that dissolve boundaries of body and world. Vanitas, recursion, and abstraction merge into a quiet proof that reason falters when faced with its own reflection.

#aiart #cartesianparadox #deepdreamgenerator #emmacha #miseenabymeart #speculumvanitatis #surrealmodernism #tautologiarecursiva