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I wanted to be inside the picture
I went to art school as a kid, and I spent a lot of it staring at paintings and imagining myself inside them.
So for this challenge I picked a painting of Klimt's portrait of Mäda Primavesi, 1912 to 1913, at the Met. She was about eight. One arm on her hip, not smiling.
What I really wanted was the story behind it, and behind the dress she is wearing.
I started with the designer. The Met's curator says the dress was made by Emilie Flöge, at Klimt's suggestion. The audio guide calls her "his companion, the designer Emilie Flöge". Her own collection burned in 1945 and almost no finished clothes survive, so this painted dress is one of the few places her work can still be seen.
Then I researched what a Viennese workroom actually had in 1912. Batiste and organdi. Ribbon roses of the Wiener Werkstätte. Only after that did I start generating, and every prompt used those words instead of "vintage white dress".
Then the part I wanted since I was a kid: getting in. The camera pulls back out of the picture, onto a museum wall, and a grown woman is standing in front of it, looking.
Fun fact from the process: a canvas behaves like a design system. Leave one thing unlocked and everything downstream drifts, same failure as an unlinked token.
Also my first time working in a node system, and I had wanted to try one for a long time.
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i went back to the late 1890 and earliest 19th century, and choose to work with a beautiful painting called; Giant Magnolias on a Blue Velvet Cloth by the artist; Martin Johnson Heade.
it definitely deserved a comeback, so i turned it into a Recraft Style, and use it to draw things Martin would never have imagined, like modern fashion wears, techs and appliances.
there's alot in my recraft project, check it out through the link.
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LUDUS MAGNUS — Modern Life, Unearthed
What would remain of our everyday lives if someone unearthed them centuries from now?
Inspired by the Getty Museum’s Statue of an Athlete, LUDUS MAGNUS imagines a museum of our present: ten classical marble sculptures preserving the ways we play, move, escape, connect and dream.
A basketball player hangs forever before the shot; a breakdancer balances upside down beside a stone boombox; a woman raises her phone to capture a moment that has already outlived her.
Built around a custom Recraft Style drawn from the archive sculpture’s pale marble, weathered surfaces, irregular fractures and quiet museum lighting, the collection carries these familiar gestures into an imagined archaeological future, where a surfboard, a vinyl record, a VR headset or a drone becomes a clue to the lives once lived around it.
Across all ten works, chipped stone and missing limbs leave the viewer to complete the movement—to recognise the ambition in a leap, the intimacy of listening, the desire to be remembered, and the enduring human impulse to reach beyond ourselves.
The objects tell us when. The gestures tell us who.
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Ten posters. Modern rituals, ancient marble.
Turning the colors I notice around Lisbon into a series of posters, each inspired by a different photograph.
01 [Blue in Detail] started with the blue Portuguese tiles, exploring their intricate patterns, ceramic tones, and small details.
02 [Color on Repeat] explored the rhythm of blue and yellow tiles, using repetition as the starting point for the design.
I sampled colors from my photographs and used Canva Craft to explore layouts, typography, and graphic elements. Then I refined the designs by hand, adjusting the colors, spacing, and text.
