Black-and-white portraits of women, calm, turned inward. Around them, things that don't belong: small fish in front of a mouth, coral and pearls in the hair, glass doves shedding drops.

Sirene is about attraction and depth – what nourishes us, what lets us sink, what holds us to the world. The foreign elements shift the gaze just far enough for the familiar to turn strange.

The images emerge in dialogue with generative AI. Concept, composition and final selection are mine – the machine opens spaces I would not have found alone.
Printed directly on aluminium Dibond. The surface carries the fine transitions, and up close there is more than the first glance reveals.

What remains lies somewhere between within and without.

Dirk Habenschaden is a visual generative artist based in Freising, Germany, working across image, sound and

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