A Miracle
Something ephemeral, weightless, elusive
Maybe alive, or maybe made of glass.
Beautiful and strange.
Unique — that is, non-reproducible.
For such a bagatelle to come into being, the sketch you upload to the AI must already be nearly as refined.
It must possess the delicacy and perfection of the final form.
It’s useless to ask the algorithm for a miracle if you haven’t sown a miraculous seed within it yourself.
It can’t create out of thin air — only from a hint.
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And the hint must be both gentle and transparent.
The sketch must contain both crystal clarity and “air” at the same time.
If the machine misses the hint, it will produce a ready-made banality.
And without air, you won’t get a miracle.
At the same time, the image you expect to see in the end must already stand clearly before your inner eye.
The prompt must be short and concise, like a haiku:
“Add volume, semi-translucent texture, keep the light.”
The machine has its limits in understanding complex abstract images.
And also… as strange as it sounds, there has to be a kind of “chemistry” between you and the machine at that moment.
And still, you never really know for sure…
