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Ghost Archive

"Photographs of people who never existed."

ToolAutomatic1111
ModelStable Diffusion
Era2022—2023
Pieces

Before Tomato Bird. Before the comics. Before any of this had a name.

Ghost Archive is a small retrospective from my earliest days with Stable Diffusion via Automatic1111 — when you'd type a prompt, wait a minute, and watch something that had never existed emerge from noise. These are photographs of people who aren't people. Film grain that was never shot. Moments that never happened.

Some pieces are titled. Most are just numbers — seed outputs I liked enough to save. They're not polished. They're not pretending to be anything more than they are: a weird kid playing with a new tool, figuring out what AI could do and what it couldn't, and saving the ones that felt like something.

I'm including them because the journey matters. Everything I make now — the comics, the on-chain art, the generative work — started here. In a room, late at night, watching ghosts appear on a screen.