Process Note
Over twelve days between the winter solstice and the new year, I fed a few words from my early morning journaling practice into Midjourney. The prompts were sparse, mostly just words like imagination or winter time or feeling safe coming home. I would play a little, iterating until an image struck me as being interesting or somehow fitting my mood.

Then I wrote back to each image - a small, sparse, condensed poem.

Prior images were used as visual/tonal reference using Midjourney’s moodboard feature, so the visual world accumulated on its own. Afterward, I reordered the images and edited the text to find the story that had been building. Then I made this video and companion storybook.

The whole process was an experiment in creating materials and then using those materials to create. I am also experimenting with what it feels like to collaborate with AI.