Taketo Muroi - The Silent Orders 8

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

The Silent Orders 8

With The Silent Orders 8, the series' focus shifts significantly from cosmic symbols and architectural arrangements to an almost tactile, material intensity. The screen appears as a torn surface: silvery-gray structures are reminiscent of etched metal, sediments, or microscopic landscapes, over which bright orange streams flow.

In the context of the previous works, this image can be interpreted as the inner workings of order. While Nos. 1–7 explore order as a cosmic, spatial, or symbolic structure, No. 8 reveals its energetic permeability. Here, order is not stable but fluid, vulnerable, and permeated by forces that simultaneously shape and subvert it.

The orange lines resemble molten material, like veins of energy or data streams. They don't follow a clear geometry, but rather seem to react to resistance, branching out, accelerating, and stalling. The AI ​​doesn't generate perfect symmetry, but a field of decisions – each line the result of friction between rule and deviation.

In comparison to the cosmic dark centers of No. 7 , this is a shift from the macro- to the micro-cosmic. Order no longer manifests as a distant principle, but as a process on the surface of things. The "silent order" has become audible here—not as sound, but as a visual vibration.

The Silent Orders 8 thus articulates a central insight of the series: order is not a state, but a process. It arises in the flow, in the layering, in the constant renegotiation of structure and energy. It is only silent because we have learned to ignore its noise.