Artistic Extensions

Pushing into symbolic recursion, refusal, and design philosophy.

Visual Systems at the Edge of Contradiction: Materializing Generative Refusal

This document explores tension, refusal, and symbolic ambiguity as design tools. It shows how generative images can become expressive through pressure, not clarity. Critique becomes a generative force, building meaning through structural contradiction.. Ultimately, the piece argues for a practice of visual intelligence that materializes resistance through tensioned form, and shows how critique becomes a generative engine in its own right.

Concept Note: Volumetric Container of Force: Internal Image Strain

VCF tests whether an image can hold together under symbolic and spatial pressure. It identifies where hollow form collapses and where tension sustains volume. More than a theory, it's a scoring tool for visual strain inside generative space. It operates as both a critical lens and a scoring tool within the broader Visual Thinking Lens system, supporting the evaluation of symbolic strain, gesture tension, and visual consequence.

Prompting Against Collapse: Dialectic Structures & Internal Authorship in AI Image Generation

This paper introduces a new approach to prompting that prioritizes structural tension over aesthetic description. By embedding contradiction, recursion, and internal logic into the prompt itself, artists can steer image models toward richer, more intentional results. Rather than chasing style, this method activates visual intelligence through pressure and structural consequence.

Bending the Tokens: A Field Study in Structural Pressure for AI Imagery

This paper documents live recursive tests inside generative image models, tracking how prompts bend token behavior under structural pressure. Instead of chasing style or novelty, it probes collapse points in language and composition, revealing where images strain, drift, or tighten into coherence. The result is a field study in making AI imagery accountable to structure rather than surface aesthetics.