“New Youth” explores my identity beyond fixed family archives, using AI to reimagine personal memory outside imposed structures. By training a diffusion model on my childhood photos and the landscapes of my hometown, the project disrupts conventional narratives, allowing selfhood to emerge in fluid, non-linear ways.
The machine learning process introduces "noise" to the images, fragmenting and eroding their original form, before the model reconstructs them guided by my drawings. Through this cycle of deconstruction and reassembly, the boundaries between self and environment dissolve, revealing a space where personal memory and natural elements coexist.
The resulting images weave human presence with natural textures, resisting rigid categorizations and proposing an alternative temporality—one where memory, technology, and the organic world coexist beyond institutional validation. In a world that often demands translation and containment, “New Youth” envisions the creative reuse of archives as an act of refusal, a way to reclaim one’s own story on one’s own terms.
