We recently trained an AI model on Cursed Cat—our black, earless sculpture suspended between exaltation and rage. The model continuously generates new versions of the cat, releasing them online to feed future AI training sets. One of the generated images depicted a wooden stamp that never existed. We transformed that AI hallucination into a real tool—one capable of producing images itself.

Each print embodies both machine and manual labor. It translates a synthetic image into a physical object, bringing together two image-making systems separated by centuries. Both generate images through repetition and variation: one through statistical patterns distilled from vast datasets, the other through ink, pressure, and the hand-carved block.