At the core of the project I am currently working on lies a dual process: - The generation of an image by a neural network - The subsequent manual removal of visual information in Photoshop using the “Magic Wand” tool The key instrument here is the “Magic Wand” — an automated selection tool based on the analysis of pixel similarity. In this process, the boundaries of removal are determined by Photoshop’s algorithm; my own vision becomes secondary. I do not control the image generation process, and I only partially control the process of removing information. My task, in this sense, is something else: through the removal of information, I attempt to restore materiality and vulnerability to the image. To leave behind only the trace of the algorithm’s operation. The idea was shaped under the influence of Robert Rauschenberg’s work Erased de Kooning Drawing, in which he literally erased a drawing by the then already renowned Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning.