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title: "Valknar"
name:   "Valknar"
bio:    "Valknar works with diffusion models as a compositional tool, creating dark surrealist visions that challenge the language of machine vision and disrupt comfortable readings of the generated face."
social:
  instagram: "valknarix"
  x:         "valknar100"
---

Valknar approaches AI generation as a negotiation — between the model's statistical memory of human aesthetics and a deliberate effort to pull those aesthetics toward the unfamiliar. The results are portraits and figures that feel simultaneously recognisable and wrong.

Working primarily with portrait and figure generation, Sable uses seed manipulation, latent space traversal, and post-processing to extract images that resist the smoothness the models default to.

Based in Stuttgart.
