Artist fine-tunes SDXL on 60 childhood photos to simulate memory recall
Chuka444 · reddit · 2026-09-05
Reddit user uisato shared a speculative art project: fine-tuning SDXL on 60 childhood photographs to generate unstable variations of spaces, faces and fragments that feel familiar without necessarily having existed.
The core idea treats generative hallucination as an analogue for recollection — memory as reconstruction from incomplete traces rather than retrieval of a preserved image, echoing contemporary accounts of episodic memory as a reconstructive process.
It's more than a prompt: Kohya for fine-tuning, an audio-reactive geometry system built in TouchDesigner, a rebuilt WarpFusion to interweave the geometries with the fine-tuned model, finished with Premiere, After Effects and Ableton Live. Project files and tutorials are distributed via YouTube and Patreon.
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