The Aleph

In Borge’s short story The Aleph, the protagonist discovers a hole in the basement of his deceased sister, through which he sees everything. Borges listed everything he saw: a Tarot card in a shop window in Mirzapur, all the ants on Earth, the Aleph from everywhere at once…In short, The Aleph contains every image in the universe. I used the list as a prompt to capture the same scene in the real world, and when I ran out of ideas, I used it as a prompt for text-to-image generators.

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