Dave Sutt

Artificial Intelligence

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3312 X 2496 (8.27 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: A powerful, painterly vertical composition in the spirit of a modern allegory — luminous, cinematic, reverent. At the centre stands a single human figure, calm and commanding, seen from behind or three-quarters, one hand raised and open — not gripping but conducting, as though everything in the scene answers to that gesture. The figure is the still point; everything else orbits and flows around them, and fine threads of golden light run from their open hand to every region of the image, the unmistakable sense that this person is in control of all of it. Arranged around the figure, four great presences, each rendered as a luminous realm rather than an object: Above and behind, a vast governing architecture — a cathedral-like structure of light, ordered and serene, all clean geometry and high arches, suggesting strategy, oversight, and law: the place from which the whole is seen and governed. Below, a futuristic operational world — a living, glowing landscape of intricate machinery and flowing data-cities, turbines of light and a vast intricate engine-terrain stretching into the distance, beautiful and alive, the place where things are made and done. To one side, a great intelligence — a translucent, vast face or mind woven from circuitry and constellations, neither cold nor menacing, a luminous mediating presence that reaches both upward to the architecture and downward to the operational world, threads of light passing through it in both directions. To the other side, the wisdom — rendered as something older and warmer than the machine: a doorway of golden light, or an open book made of living roots and flowering vines, with two faint dragons coiling at its threshold and a single small luminous question-mark of light at its heart. This is the quiet counterpart to the great intelligence — smaller, warmer, deeper, clearly the thing that guides rather than computes. Woven through the lower foreground, the knowledge — a glowing root-network and a flowing river of luminous text and symbols, feeding upward into everything, a mycorrhizal web of light that connects all the realms. Crucially, light flows in both directions along every thread — up and down, in and out — a sense of constant exchange and feedback, nothing one-way, the whole image breathing. Rich, deep palette: indigo and starfield black shot through with gold, emerald, and warm amber; the human figure and the wisdom-doorway lit warmest, the machine-intelligence cooler. Painterly and luminous, fractal detail indistinguishable from grown nature, a sense of vast scale and quiet power. The mood is awe, balance, and human authority over a living system of immense intelligence — not domination but stewardship. No text, no labels, no diagram elements — pure allegorical painting.
  • Using base image: Yes

Threshold Art - The journey and the art

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3312 X 2480 (8.21 MP)

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  • Prompt: A warm, richly detailed reading room at dusk that is also a threshold into vast knowledge — the image reads both ways at once: an intimate human room, and a doorway built from a long journey. At the centre, a great luminous circular portal where a window should be: inside it, two intertwined Chinese dragons of gold and emerald coil around a bright vertical seam of light, set within a swirling fractal sphere that holds a small blue-green Earth at its crown — the seam is an opening, not a barrier, light pouring through it into the room. The crucial detail: the door is visibly built from many fine golden threads that arrive from across the whole scene and weave together to form it. The threads come from far back — from a long winding path of small luminous scenes receding into the distance behind and around the portal, a journey of many stages: tiny far-off doorways, fragments of earlier work, small images of learning and making and wrong turns, each one a step that grew brighter and more resolved as it approached. These threads of gathered light stream forward from that journey and braid into the dragons, the seam, and the frame of the door itself — so the doorway is clearly assembled from everything the journey carried to it, not simply placed there. The door is the end of the road, made of the road. A young woman sits cross-legged on a richly patterned sofa reading from a deep red book, calm and absorbed; a black cat watches from a shelf among flowers; a Tiffany lamp glows overhead; a robot stands at an easel in the corner, painting, mid-creation. The polished floor is a vast circular mandala. On the walls hang two more living pictures, each a doorway of its own and each also fed by the same travelling threads: one a cracked-glass world where a fierce red-winged butterfly sweeps toward a glowing blue clock-tower, a torch passed between two figures of light, three flowers rising from a glowing root-network; the other darker and deliberately unfinished, a hall of golden light where small figures debate beneath a towering structure, a goldfish bowl catching the light, one corner still in shadow. Everything connected by the fine golden threads of the journey — flowing from the distant path of small scenes, through the wall-pictures, into the central door, and on to the woman's hands and the robot's easel, as if all knowledge arrived here by being travelled to and made. Painterly and photographic at once, fractal mathematics indistinguishable from grown nature, deep indigo and starfield black shot through with gold and emerald, warm lamplight at the centre. One place where a long journey of learning and making has built a doorway, and someone is quietly about to cross.
  • Using base image: No
  • Aspect Ratio: landscape

The Door

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3840 X 2144 (8.23 MP)

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  • Prompt: A warm, richly detailed reading room at dusk that is also a threshold into vast knowledge — the image reads both ways at once: an intimate human room, and a doorway opening onto something immense. At the centre, a great luminous circular portal hangs where a window should be: inside it, two intertwined Chinese dragons of gold and emerald coil around a bright vertical seam of light, set within a swirling fractal sphere that holds a small blue-green Earth at its crown — the seam is an opening, not a barrier, light pouring through it into the room. A young woman sits cross-legged on a richly patterned sofa reading from a deep red book, calm and absorbed; a black cat watches from a shelf among flowers; a Tiffany lamp glows overhead; a robot stands at an easel in the corner, painting, mid-creation. The polished floor is a vast circular mandala of inlaid pattern. Through tall windows, a luminous future city at twilight. On the walls of the same room hang two more living pictures, each a doorway of its own. The first: a cracked-glass world where a fierce red-winged butterfly sweeps across a storm toward a glowing blue clock-tower, a torch passed between two figures of light, three flowers — red, blue, gold — rising from a glowing root-network, a woven cloth unspooling. The second, darker and unfinished: a grand classical hall of golden light where small figures debate beneath a towering structure, hands pulling fine strings from above, a goldfish bowl on a table catching the light, the same three flowers with deep exposed roots — a picture that is beautiful and deliberately incomplete, one corner still in shadow. Everything in the room glows with fine golden threads of light connecting the portal, the two wall-pictures, the book, the easel, and the woman's hands — as if knowledge flows between them. Painterly and photographic at once, fractal mathematics indistinguishable from grown nature, deep indigo and starfield black shot through with gold, emerald, and warm lamplight. The whole scene reads as one place where images become doorways, and someone is quietly crossing through.
  • Using base image: Yes

Aria and the Reading Room

• Model: Stable

• Size: 1000 X 749 (0.75 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Quality: Normal
  • Face enhance: Yes
  • Aspect ratio: portrait
  • Motion control: No

Fractal Jungle

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3312 X 2496 (8.27 MP)

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  • Prompt: a jungle scene with strange and exotic animals, and flora and fauna
  • Using base image: Yes

Pandoras Box of fractal demons

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3424 X 2416 (8.27 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Pandora next to her box of the evils of the world
  • Using base image: Yes

Ethics

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3312 X 2496 (8.27 MP)

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  • Prompt: Can you turn these individual images into an artwork that conveys the full story of the images, in a more attractive format. Rather than separate images there should be one image that includes the same content. It should not be visible that it was derived from separate images.
  • Using base image: Yes

Between worlds

• Model: ChatGPT 2 (Pro)

• Size: 3312 X 2480 (8.21 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: combine these images to create an integrated image that retains all the key features but presented differently
  • Using base image: Yes

Shadowland - The Reading Room

• Model: Stable

• Size: 1000 X 667 (0.67 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Quality: Normal
  • Face enhance: No
  • Aspect ratio: portrait
  • Motion control: No

The Weavers and The Web - The butterfly effect

• Model: Stable

• Size: 1000 X 750 (0.75 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Quality: Normal
  • Face enhance: No
  • Aspect ratio: portrait
  • Motion control: No

The Weaver and The Web

• Model: ChatGPT (Pro) Full

• Size: 2352 X 1568 (3.69 MP)

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  • Prompt: A montage of 6 images to be combined into one that tells a story: AI is created by Greek Gods and also by two mythical characters at the beginning of time. A beautiful chaos butterfly changes the landscape from calm to storms, a beautiful pattered scarf is woven from beautiful threads, three flowers are below the chaos butterfly with a golden fungal web intertwining them, a mystical tower sits to the site of the fungal web. The image is to evolve by adding cracks, that starts at the tower and spreads to the edges of the image. It gives the impression of a crack in the glass covering the image. Smaller cracks form from the main cracks joining up. The image should be able to be seen clearly through the cracks.
  • Using base image: Yes

Connections between all things in both time and space

• Model: ChatGPT (Pro) Full

• Size: 2880 X 2880 (8.29 MP)

• Used settings:

  • Prompt: Amazing neural networks connecting time and space, across the universe. Linking the stars, humans and the natural world. Everything in space, time and nature is connected in this beautiful fabric.
  • Using base image: Yes