VISUAL
STUDIES

The images collected here are working documents: concept studies, world-building exercises, prompt experiments made while the symbolic language of the live performances was still taking shape. Most of them exist because I needed to see an idea before I could commit to it.

The most important shift in the process was a change of question. Early on, image generation meant producing isolated pictures: prompt in, artifact out. The results had no relationship to each other. The work started to cohere when I began asking what world Signal Bloom actually inhabits. A world implies continuity. Anything generated inside one has to account for everything generated before it.

The first reference point was Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. What interested me was the construction underneath the imagery. Bosch populated a single painting with recurring organisms, impossible architecture, hybrid bodies, strange plants, and interconnected narratives, and it holds together because everything in it obeys the same internal logic. One painting sustains an entire ecosystem.

Signal Bloom borrows that construction. The project has its own mythology, its own ecology, its own recurring visual species, and every study since that shift belongs to a single evolving computational world. The performance works the same way: its seven movements pass through different states of that world, the way weather passes through a landscape.

A second milestone was NoirmakStyle, a custom Flux LoRA trained on a dataset curated from the project's own visual language: marble sculpture, queer futurism, glitch, digital decay, cyan, magenta, gold. Once the model learned that vocabulary, the world began reinforcing itself — each generation inherits the logic of the ones before it. The earliest successful images from that model form the core of this archive, shown in the state they were made, seams visible.