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Newlyweds - In Utero by @esherick on EXPANDED.ART I collected this piece in June last year, not long after my wife and I left Singapore to embark on our honeymoon in the Americas—a journey that is still currently ongoing. It's been a year and a day since our wedding on 21 January 2024, and tomorrow will mark exactly 8 months of us travelling together. As I reflect on how far we've come and how far we still have to go, I can't help but turn back to Kevin's artwork, which unwittingly serves as an apt artefact for this moment of our lives.
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All the works in Kevin's In Utero series embody the "incomplete" outputs of a text-to-image AI model, its process of image generation halted before it can fully take shape. The result is an embryo frozen in time, the nourishment of its underlying text prompt—in this case, "newlyweds"—fading away just as we start to see something. In a sense, the exhortations in my wedding vows—"I do"—mirror those of the prompt in this work. There's intent, there's a call for action. And the underlying machinery cranks on: on one hand, us navigating the playbook of marriage, and on the other hand, the diffusion model undertaking the steps it's been programmed to do. But much like Kevin's intervention to halt the diffusion process, our decision to combine a desired sabbatical and our honeymoon into a year-long escapade has proven to be a clarifying act.
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Even as our futures remain uncertain, undefined, one thing has become even sharper: the work to build our relationship has only just begun. There's a lot more toil to undertake, paths to navigate, and meaning to make—together. The nebulousness in Newlyweds thus mirrors closely what I feel about our journey ahead. Similar to how we're now wrestling with the implications of AI on our lives, my wife and I will need to deal with the weight of traditions and the illusion of ideals, all while trying to leave a meaningful imprint within the latent possibilities of our relationship. We're no longer newlyweds, but we're exactly where we need to be.
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