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TheSusie Fashion Show: A Fictional Art Memo
Updated 3/17/25 at 7pm ET: My novel is my work of fiction. My names, characters, places, and incidents are products of my imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is coincidental.
NOTE: Unless the material is quoted clearly, I never copy and paste words from AI or any other source into my self-published books — please go to fashiontext.com for more info
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TODO: explain what happens within Susie’s fiction universe from summer S2011 until S2013
For now, I’ll describe the header image:
1) There’s my take on the classic “women in a red dress that is tropical and who might describe herself as granola,” and she looks a lot like me even though I’m a man — except that her face isn’t disfigured, either. That’s another difference, but aside from that, she looks like me.
2) There’s an androgynous character who’s applying paint onto an art mask, and so that could also be me — especially as her or his face is covered by the mask. Or the masked character in this image (that I screen-grabbed from AI’s video) might prefer pronouns other than his or hers, but the text that I supplied to AI in order to generate the underlying video was, “CS and I hired a mask maker to do our makeup every morning, as we became regulars at Hal’s house parties and yoga adventures,” and then AI did the rest…in the manner of a black box. (For there’s a lot that I don’t know about how AI works right now.)
3) There’s two plain, close-up images of Susie’s face, pretty much, and she looks like a billionaire in her mid-40s who has great skin for a person her age, but Susie doesn’t have any one official visage, look, size, or shape. She can appear in any human-like form. Men like me, for example, can look like Susie too, but statistically speaking, she usually shows up in media, as it were, while looking like a typical female TV-news personality with long hair of any color. And, Susie is a fictional character that I created within my on-going writing process. But of course…
4) There’s another image of Susie standing next to two of her race cars, somewhere in America, and in this one, Susie’s making a facial expression that mimics my facial disfigurement, which is to say that she appears to be raising the muscles below her left eye. But this facial-expression-feature of the image is super subtle because (the implied position of) the camera is a whole car-length away from Susie, and yet her expression is visible in roughly the same way that my facial disfigurement is visible from that distance.
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