Part I. Sensing

Enormous Creatures

Shakespeare's Sonnet I → Transbliterated (001)

Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.
  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
  To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

Transbliteration

Enormous creatures augment my desire
	The merely beautiful bore me to death
		Whose mothers live between
			An easy life
			And a memory to be
But you
	Your desire trapped
		In brilliant eyes
			A light by which I could live forever
You feed on some hidden abundance
	An enemy's treasure
		Candy
			An edible garter 'round the world

I alone call you out
	Yank the truth from your throat
	Suck your vomit
	Tell the world
		Here is your glutton!
So I can eat the remains
	Hidden 'neath your gravestone

Watch the original 130-second render

Two minutes of the sonnet rewriting itself into the poem, one draft at a time — twenty-six of them, from Shakespeare's opening to the lines on the signs in the garden.

The poem, line by line

Sculpture for: But you / Your desire trapped / In brilliant eyes — But you Your desire trapped In brilliant eyes

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

Sculpture for: A light by which I could live forever — A light by which I could live forever

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

Sculpture for: You feed on some hidden abundance / An enemy's treasure / Candy — You feed on some hidden abundance An enemy's treasure Candy

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

Sculpture for: An edible garter 'round the world — An edible garter 'round the world

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

Sculpture for: I alone call you out / Yank the truth from your throat / Suck your vomit — I alone call you out Yank the truth from your throat Suck your vomit

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

Sculpture for: Tell the world / Here is your glutton! — Tell the world Here is your glutton!

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

Sculpture for: So I can eat the remains / Hidden 'neath your gravestone — So I can eat the remains Hidden 'neath your gravestone

Prompt section	CLIP the short prompt	T5 the long prompt
Art period	historical painting	jazz age
Material	clay	ceramic
Adjectives	interesting, curved pattern, frictionless	suspended in space, stretching, mind-bending, baffled, musical, sorrowful, charming, dismal, massive
Background	on a green lawn	mountains in the background
Time of day	beautifully lit	mid-day
Adverbs	Fluidity, brilliantly, greedily	Chirality, life stands frozen in despair, repulsive gravity, rogue waves, eternal spark in the heart, emotion-packed, theoretical one-dimensional topological defect in the fabric of spacetime, infinite number of times, complexity, group of atoms, varying lighting conditions
Image qualities	landscape, Synthspirited Vision, AP photo	awesome composition, atmospheric, long shot, ultra photoreal, Dreamstone World, 21:9, beautifully color-coded, flash-enabled, fine grain capture, Frostflare, global illumination
Shape	sculpture garden	sculpture garden

What the sculptures changed

cut Rat you out the sculptures came out as literal rats — the line meant informing, the model meant rodents

Travelling the other way, the prompts abstract the poem. Every divergence between what was written and what the model was told is recorded in each image's receipt above; the substantive ones are marked.

Sculptures

From line 3: “But you Your desire Trapped in brilliant conceptual eyes”

From line 4: “desire A light by which I could live forever”

From line 5: “You feed on some hidden abundance An enemy's treasure Candy”

From line 6: “hidden abundance An edible garter 'round the earth”

From line 7: “I alone call you out Yank the truth from your throat Suck your vomit”

From line 8: “I alone Tell the world Here is your glutton!”

From line 9: “So I can eat the remains Hidden beneath your gravestone”