Taketo Muroi - Latent grains 10

Technique: Promptography on fine art paper
Image size: 30 x 30 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2025

Latent Grains 10

Latent Grains 10 can be read like a glimpse into the inner workings of a generative thought process. The flowing color zones—blue, green, yellow, magenta—appear familiar yet slightly shifted, as if the image has decided to reformulate itself in a different way. Nothing is rigidly separated; everything is in a state of becoming.

Here, the role of AI becomes clearly evident: This work exemplifies the fact that an identical prompt never results in identical images. Each calculation generates a new variation, a minimal deviation, a different weighting of color, transition, and intensity. Latent Grains 10 is therefore less a final product than a snapshot—one possible state among many.

From a media-critical perspective, the image points to the illusion of control in AI systems. Humans provide the initial impulse, but the machine responds with difference. This is precisely where the poetic quality of this work lies: it demonstrates that repetition in the digital realm is not copying, but variation.

In the context of the series , Latent Grains 10 marks a quiet conclusion. Not as an ending, but as an open loop. The image could have looked different – ​​and that is precisely its message.

For Taketo Muroi, this makes it clear: AI is not a tool for fixing images, but a system that produces blurriness – and thus new forms of perception.