aibynada

Description

This image explores the psychological residue of systems that discipline tenderness into posture. The child, dressed in military uniform, holds a soft toy—not as a symbol of innocence, but as something almost endangered. A shimmer of fractured pixels dissolves the portrait’s surface, hinting at inner dissonance the system failed to suppress. I generated this image using MidJourney, guided by a simple but deliberate constraint: to produce something that appears composed, yet carries a rupture just beneath. No overworking, no spectacle. Just a controlled surface—unsettled by something soft, something strange.

Process

I was tired of making work that meant something—and watching it go nowhere. Online, it’s always the beautiful things that get seen. Not the difficult ones. Not the ones that ask questions. Just the ones that look smooth and polished. So I stopped fighting it. I let the images be beautiful. I used soft light. I followed the symmetry. I made faces that people would want to look at. But underneath, I tried to leave something that wouldn’t settle. A tension. A quiet dissonance. That’s where this project came from.From the need to speak honestly—inside a system that only listens when truth comes wrapped in beauty.

Tools

All visuals were generated using MidJourney, with no further manipulation beyond basic exposure tweaks. I come from a background that’s far more tactile—manual, analog, layered. But here, I wanted to stay inside the frame, to let the machine speak in its own language.