Where I Watched Fireflies

The old forest was home to multitudes of bathed butterflies, busy in blue bands on the hazelnut orchards, and beaked boats bobbing in the bay. There were also multitudes of solitary whales, bearded kraits, and Oriental lantern-and-barrel nettles, both fishing and roving, and also a great many deserted boats, with the same melancholy adventure. I sat by the window and watched the fireflies at dusk. ___________________ Cottage soundscapes created in collaboration with artificial intelligence by curating images from StyleGAN2, upsampling with ESRGAN, and transitioning time of day with HiDT. Trained on thousands of real and fantasy images of cottages and treehouses. Text descriptions curated f...View all