Down the Path of Strange

The converse of it being frustratingly hard to produce flawless beauty in Midjourney, is the ease with which you can produce the strange and bizarre. I often, as a kind of palette cleanser, flick out a few bizarre images when the struggle to create beauty gets too hard… these are done with relatively simple prompts, often only one or two words, and always produce bizarre results…

… but sometimes produce surprisingly beautiful results. Midjourney’s natural tendency seems to be for bewilderingly complex images, where any inherent beauty is subsumed by very clever, but far too much, detail…

… I decided to see if I could consistently create beautiful weirdness. It wasn’t easy…

… but every now and then, I got what I consider to be really gorgeous images…

… believe me, for each gorgeous image, there were many really ugly ones…

… but then it would throw out one like the one above, which I think is beautiful. But, because this result is caused by random words designed to cause random results, it’s very hard to then pursue this ‘theme’, because it never ‘was’ a theme, just the blind firing of virtual synapses…