How it was made
Using Deforum (via Automatic1111), a frame-by-frame AI video generation method, each work in Dance, Regardless was created in-cAImera as a single, continuous sequence — no cuts, no post-production assembly. All compositional, tonal, and temporal decisions are encoded into the generation process itself. The work is made and captured in one unbroken take.
The technique was developed through sustained experimentation with time-based modulation, evolving prompts, bespoke parameter settings, and keyframes, to shape emotional tone and atmosphere over time — enabling an immediate, embodied, painterly mode of making where images emerge directly from feeling.
Alpha masks interrupt the AI-generated field as figures move through the frame. Bodies drift in and out of coherence, dissolving at the edges and reassembling organically — simultaneously present and dissolving, the fundamental condition of grief made structural.
Music was generated using Suno AI across multiple sessions, composed during active states of grief and heartbreak.
The series is the next movement after Dance Interrupted (2023; Fellowship, daily.xyz, 2024). While born from personal rupture, it invites recognition across grief, adaptation, and endurance.