Glimpses of Inner Worlds Portraits of virtual beings have been at the heart of my creative practice for more than two decades. Lately, I have been using portraiture as a starting point to explore mutation: what can emerge from an image, and how one form can give rise to another. For this project, I began with a portrait already composed of mutations and interwoven textile textures, then used Adobe Firefly and Nano Banana 2 to generate a series of still-image transformations exploring the inner worlds of this character. I let the portrait open, multiply and transform, revealing architectures, tiny figures and living creatures contained within it. I then used Seedance 2.5 in Frames mode through Adobe Firefly to animate the transitions between these still images and connect them into a continuous sequence, before bringing everything into Premiere Pro to explore rhythm through editing. Finally, I returned to Firefly Generate Sound Effects to build the soundscape and give these transfor...