Taketo Muroi - The Silent Orders 2

Technique: Promptography on fine art paper
Image size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2025

The Silent Orders 2

In The Silent Orders 2, Taketo Muroi shifts the focus from cosmic order to the boundary itself—to that fragile zone between matter and infinity. The image depicts a rocky surface, torn open like a geological wound. Through this opening appears not light in the classical sense, but a star-studded space, deep, cool, and of silent intensity.

The surface appears heavy, earthy, almost archaic. It evokes rock, crust, something that has come into being. In contrast, the interior is a cosmic field of stars and nebulae, timeless and immaterial. This juxtaposition is central. The focus is not on the universe as a motif, but on the relationship between shell and content, between the visible and the hidden.

Here, AI acts as an intermediary between scale and meaning. It doesn't create a spectacular breakthrough, but rather a precise opening – as if looking into the universe were not an event, but an ever-present possibility. The cosmos doesn't appear distant, but inscribed within matter itself.

The Silent Orders 2 speaks quietly of enlightenment: not as conquest, but as careful uncovering. Order remains invisible, but it reveals itself where something breaks open – not violently, but necessarily.