Subsumption Ceremony
2026
drawing
42" x 42"
soft pastel and charcoal on paper
Subsumption Ceremony (2026) extends the chamber logic of Neonatal Boudoir onto paper. The image emerges from latent space, seeded by Bedtime Stories for Oankali (2023) and a working sketch. A figure tilts back, face dissolving beneath a flesh-toned limb that arrives as both caress and intrusion—care indistinguishable from capture. Black skeins and orange traces swarm the head—marks that adorn even as they consume. The red mouth remains: the unassimilable remainder Lyotard names the inhuman. The picture plane becomes incubator, where soft tissue and synthetic gesture intra-act, neither host nor parasite fully legible. Ceremony is referenced as a giving away and becoming other—the figure receives what consumes her, nurture and erasure collapsed into a single ambivalent embrace.
ComfyUI generative Ai workflow for image used as model for Subsumption Ceremony. Image prompts use image of Oankali sculpture, drawing and a previous genAI image interacting with Oankali
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