CUBISM – The Face of Robin

ABOUT THIS GALLERY

This space owes its existence to a happy accident. I originally asked MidJourney to generate imagery in an Art Deco style, but what emerged instead leaned unmistakably toward something else entirely. Angles fractured. Planes overlapped. Perspectives refused to stay put. Before long, the inspiration had shifted fully into cubism. Once that door opened, the experiment moved from image generation into structure. Could a cubist sensibility exist in the layout itself? I began researching ways to evoke the language of cubism using CSS—fractured shapes, shifting layers, multiple viewpoints at once. Strictly speaking, it’s probably impossible to recreate true cubism in code. But attempting it reveals something interesting: even digital layouts can hint at that same restless geometry. The result is one of the simpler galleries here, at least on the surface. And yet, like the movement that inspired it, the simplicity hides a surprising complexity. It’s hard not to wonder what the cubists—Picasso, Braque, and the rest—would think if they could see their experiments echoed through modern tools and algorithms. One suspects they might have had quite a bit of fun with it.