PLA
L40xH40xW10 cm
2023

Study for Homage to the Square:
Guidance scale

Wall sculpture,
2023


A set of nested squares displays images generated from the prompt "human, plants" across varied guidance scales. The guidance scale, an added parameter in stable diffusion 2, controls how closely the image aligns with the text prompt, in other words, the generator's interpretative freedom.

Referencing Josef Albers' square paintings, known for the study of color progression and mechanisms of vision, this work explores, instead, the progression of control shaping the aesthetics and the mechanism of machine vision, corresponding to the very spectrum of human cognition.