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title: "Valknar"
name:   "Valknar"
bio:    "Valknar treats diffusion models as a engine of contradiction — pitting the cute against the grotesque, the opulent against the decayed, and the familiar against the deeply wrong. The results are cinematic concept images that feel like stills from films that should not exist."
social:
  instagram: "valknarix"
  x:         "valknar100"
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Valknar approaches AI generation as a collision course. The work takes familiar cultural touchstones — video game icons, children's characters, Renaissance still life — and forces them through genre frameworks they were never designed to survive: survival horror, Gigeresque biomechanics, neo-Tokyo neon, Burtonesque gothic.

The technique is less about coaxing beauty from the model and more about engineering productive discomfort. Vivid colour is deployed against desolation. Opulence is buried in decay. The cinematic framing is deliberate — wide shots, hero angles, macro details — borrowed from the language of film concept art and applied to subjects the camera would not normally linger on.

Based in Stuttgart.
