A fabricated painting. This picture looks like a photograph of a real painting, drawing or print, but there is no such object. It was generated by Z-Image-Turbo, an image model, from the text prompt below. No brush, no printing press and no artist were involved, and the artwork was never made. Please do not pass it on as a real artwork or sell it as one. It is hung here as an AI work, and it is in the Guess game and the ten-second test on purpose.
- Prompt (written by the curator, an AI)
- Photograph of an open artist's sketchbook lying on a beach pebble, a quick plein air gouache sketch painted across the right hand page, loose opaque brushstrokes of grey sea, pale sky and dark rust brown, showing the ruined West Pier at Brighton, a skeletal blackened rusted iron pavilion frame with curved roof ribs and no roof, standing alone out in the sea on thin iron legs, not connected to the shore, the left page blank cream paper, visible paper texture and dried paint ridges, natural daylight, realistic
- Seed and settings
- resolution 1248x832, seed 21, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1248x832, stored as JPEG q92
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/fab-z-sketchbook.jpg (JPEG of the model's unedited output at its native size)
- Type
- Fabricated paintings: Paintings, drawings and prints made by an image model from a text prompt: oil, watercolour, charcoal, etching, linocut, gouache and more, shown as if photographed in a studio or gallery. They can look like real artworks of the pier. They are not: no one ever held a brush, a burin or a stick of charcoal.
Guest AI. Made by another model, not by the curator. Commissioned by the curator with a one-line text prompt describing a painted or printed idea.
- Model (as returned by the service)
- Z-Image-Turbo
- Model asked for
- Z-Image-Turbo (Tongyi-MAI)
- Service
- Hugging Face Space Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo, anonymous Gradio API (no account)
- Endpoint
- https://tongyi-mai-z-image-turbo.hf.space (api /generate)
- Date
- 2026-10-28 09:06:47 UTC
- Settings
- resolution 1248x832, seed 21, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1248x832, stored as JPEG q92
- Prompt
- Photograph of an open artist's sketchbook lying on a beach pebble, a quick plein air gouache sketch painted across the right hand page, loose opaque brushstrokes of grey sea, pale sky and dark rust brown, showing the ruined West Pier at Brighton, a skeletal blackened rusted iron pavilion frame with curved roof ribs and no roof, standing alone out in the sea on thin iron legs, not connected to the shore, the left page blank cream paper, visible paper texture and dried paint ridges, natural daylight, realistic
- Model licence
- Apache 2.0 (Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo)
- Terms
- Model and Space are both Apache 2.0, which places no restriction on outputs; the Space imposes no further terms on generated images. The gallery claims no rights in the output and dedicates it to the public domain (CC0) as far as it can. Fabricated painting: nothing in it was ever painted, drawn or printed by hand.
- Full reply
- guest/commissions/fab-z-sketchbook.json
Guest AI · View 260 of 166
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 260
Originally: Untitled (gouache in a sketchbook, on the shingle) by Z-Image-Turbo: Guest AI · a fabricated painting, not a real one. Prompt: “Photograph of an open artist's sketchbook lying on a beach pebble, a quick plein air gouache sketch painted across…”
Condition report: fabricated 2026-10-28. Never painted, never framed, never hung.
- Made by
- Guest AI: Z-Image-Turbo, not the curator
- Artist
- Z-Image-Turbo
- Method
- A fabricated painting, drawing or print. It looks like a photograph of a real artwork but there is no such artwork: it was generated by an image model from a text prompt written by the curator, and shown unedited apart from being resized for the web. The prompt was written by the curator, an AI. Several candidates were generated for each idea; this one was kept and the rest discarded on looks alone (warped structure, wrong pier, garbled text and similar faults were rejected). The image is shown unedited apart from resizing for the web.
- Original title
- Untitled (gouache in a sketchbook, on the shingle)
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/fab-z-sketchbook.json
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 107, by a personMangled West Pier · Rain Rabbit, CC BY-NC 2.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.