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makeNOimage

At makeNOimage, we explore the power of images and their impact on us personally and the world around us for good or...not so good. 

In a modern, high-tech, AI-driven culture, we are witnessing a powerful irony: The more people navigate an image-saturated world, the more they are becoming ICONOCLASTS. 

The modern icon smashers...deleting them...swiping photos right or left...ever more dismissive of images...

"That picture ain't real! That's FAKE!...it's Artificial Intelligence!"

So what then—images lie? And only now with AI? The questions  are not "do images have power?" (Iconoclasts know they do), but which has more power: images that are accurate, real, and TRUE, or those that are NOT? 

Are even ANY images EVER real or true not to themselves only but what they depict?

As AI-manipulated imaging becomes the new standard flooding a world already drowning in icons and logos public suspicion is at an all-time high. 

They say "a picture is worth a thousand words", but do we see what we want to? or dare we ask: 

"What is the image actually saying?"

If "the pen is mightier than the sword", is not the paint brush a nuke? And now to this warfare add AI. 

We used to smile at the "exotic natives" who shied away from cameras invading their "primitive" spaces. How quaint, how naive they thought the camera a "soul-stealing box."

But maybe there is something to that? but we're too distracted to see it with our mindset of "MUH 15 minutes of fame!"  

Aren't we losing our souls? Becoming LESS human...more artificial...more machine...

The paradox of images remains at makeNOimage: it is NOT enough that "seeing IS believing" but it is TOO much. 

I still sing "Oh be careful little eyes what you see..." 

Even a good thing—a real thing—is still counterfeit to another standard. Perhaps our faith should indeed be in that which we cannot see. 

might we makeNOimage...but observe better...see more