_TREACHEROUS WATERS

I found this image last night while refreshing the website in search of the latest 15. Upon loading, a giant blue swatch stared me down, my eyes shifted to the caption, and the mysterious moment was broken with laughter. What funny things people decide to put into this system. Immediately my mind with its pattern establishing circuits went ‘WOW… tell me that is not a picture of an ocean?!’ - and it most certainly is. I imagine it as a sectional view, from the light colored surface on down to the dark depths of unchartered’ness. 

This is a dangerous game to play. From my understanding of how the whole system works + why it works, there is no room for semantic translation in the images; it has to be shrugged off as a coincidence. Nevertheless, there is a long slew of examples which could argue that a link between textual subject and image exists, backed up by a larger selection of text2image users who express similar notions in their observations. This is where I could/would/should hand the key off to a social scientist and ask for their professional opinion on the matter. In the meantime, I will have fun engaging in what I shall dub a textual fetish [article on that to come soon], and enjoy the fascinating images this tool produces. 

_REINFORCING THE POINT

Have a look at the b+w translation of alg_02 for the very same text:

_GOING TOO FAR

Finally, when the two are combined: