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Take one part of the oxygen hit of young adulthood with all of its unfolding potentiality, in the case of my model fresh faced, immersed in her music imagining the reflection of an older woman reflecting on a love past. Add an elaborate algorithm based on how the faces of women are shown to display the many possible beauties. Reflect on the IMDB stills of actors in character with all the enhancements of makeup, hairstyling, costuming, lighting, and musical accompaniment. Contrast that with the same actors in character as celebrities before the red carpet backdrop—uniformly stylized to a singular realization of the glamour of the day, unabashedly unnatural.
Here's a panel of one face as seen by AI. They all fall short of the unadorned original in one way or another, yet all present a convention of beauty.
I've consoled myself that my eye's discernment compensates for my genetically inept hand. (My grandfather and son had/have the hand and eye both.) These are images that were summoned from the vasty deep solely from my setting in motion an image and picking the best of the results.
