Welcome to the world of Winston Everlast
Poems of seventeen syllables, images answered by a machine — and now, songs made from both.
Each haiga begins as a poem — seventeen syllables, counted strictly, five-seven-five. The finished poem then becomes the prompt: handed, word for word, to MidJourney, an artificial intelligence that answers language with images. Most of what comes back is refused. The one image that moves — that surprises, unsettles, or delights before it explains — is kept, and poem and image are sealed together in a single Polaroid frame: an instant that will not happen again.
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The work spans every version of MidJourney since its public release in 2022 — from the dreamlike, gloriously unreliable early models to the interpretive sophistication of the latest — and no image is ever remade with a newer version. Each haiga stays in the version of machine vision that existed the moment it was made, so the collection doubles as a chronicle of how a machine learned to see.
The Songs
Twenty-two songs, each built from thirty-three haiga arranged into a single arc and set to music — every image returns on screen as its line is sung.
The Burn Your Heart Needs
Burning Man, from arrival to Exodus — all Ten Principles in thirty-three haiga.
All Hallows’ Eve
Halloween, and the gallows humor of the dead.
The Robe Stays Behind
The lawyer’s arc, from the bar to the bench — and what is left when the robe comes off.
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Every haiga, in one room
The songs are drawn from the collection — 873 haiga, searchable by word, form, and book. Find the one that stays with you.
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