This is what happens when you ask a machine to "think" like lichen and it hears something else entirely.

The dot density gradient evokes water ripples and fungal growth, revealing the space between organic and machine learning interpretation. Concentric circles expand, overlap, fade, the algorithm doesn't distinguish between pond surface and mycelium, between ripple and growth ring.

This glitch of language between human and machine is itself a kind of symbiosis, like lichen, where two different organisms create something neither could alone, the miscommunication between human intention and machine logic generates forms that wouldn't exist through perfect translation.

In the dialogue with the #machine misunderstandings arise and the code outputs are unexpected. These new iterations I call 'ripple lichen'.
Instead of correcting the glitch, the error, the misunderstanding, I'm taking the results and playing with them.

Now I’m slowly landing back and starting anew!

I sat down to recollect and sort memories of the past, a journey that brought me both joy and nostalgia.Then I was immediately shot to the sands of a faraway land, a place I never thought I’d visit, meeting gorillas, lizards, and all sorts of strange beings.