Month: August 2025

Some Images

We hung some of our recent, slightly surreal work at Placebo Gallery, the other day…

… as always, they look great in the digital ‘flesh’, large on a wall…

… if this post looks visually anaemic and just not as good as our norm, it’s because we are currently experimenting with Affinity Photo, which is a vastly cheaper version of fabulous Photoshop, and, as such, very good value for money, but simply not our glorious Photoshop CS5.1…

… anyway, do come and check out our little collection of, if not technically ‘surreal’, then just wonderfully oblique images (:

After the Flood

After the flood, nothing was ever the same…

… the rules and norms of ‘normal society’ just dissolved in all that water…

… everyone, and everything just became adrift…

… left to adapt to the new reality…

… in a watery world where everyone just sat around waiting for someone else to fix things…

… and, meanwhile, the tide went in and out as though nothing had changed.

Bucolic Surrealism

So, Bucolic Surrealism…

… of course, we love it…

… ones like the above, we usually keep re-iterating until she doesn’t have a mutant hand, but we just couldn’t be bothered! The over-all image is still wonderfully surreal, including her ugly hand…

… we love this strange, bucolic weirdness…

… as we’ve previously said, we could happily live in such a weird reality…

… perhaps that’s because we are a 4000 year old alien, stranded on Earth…

… and we’re just bored with the real.

02 August

Our output runs well in advance of our posting… we have to remember to post before we get too far ahead! In the one above you can see the beginnings of a style that we named ‘Bucolic Surrealism’; we eventually used an image like this and the only written prompt we gave was ‘bucolic surrealism’, and Mj was off and running with fabulous stuff, but we’ll save that for next post…

… we love these strange worlds, we could happily live in them…

… even in a dream…

… we love the strange, alt-past feel Mj applies so well. As we understand it, that’s because when they first exposed the algorithm to all the art on the net it could vacuum up, there was far more ‘old’ imagery that was either Creative Commons, or just totally un-shielded. Another thing we discovered, recently, is that Mj does astonishingly realistic cats! That must be because of the sheer volume of cat imagery on the net (: