The dream of a cut flower.

IKEBANA PARADOX emerges from artifacts and photographic histories of Bakshi’s indigenous Taiwanese heritage, text prompts developed from abstract translations between the Hokkien and English languages, and recursive mechanisms of AI image synthesis models. Seeding a consumer-grade generative AI model with a minoritized data set, the workflow leans on a recursive digital dialogue to negotiate the territories of influence between an obscured source and the imposition of a dominant code. Within the recursion of the AI model, each successive generation of image reflects a boundary condition on which the concept of ‘becoming’ is contested, questioning invisible power dynamics in systems rooted in colonial legacies.

IKEBANA PARADOX is a meditation on the artist’s ongoing examination of themes around indigenous identity, diaspora, and manifest destiny.

For video documentation on vimeo, see: here.

Courtesy of the artist.

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