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 original loose impressionistic soft pastel sketch on dark blue-grey Canson pastel paper, drawn entirely in broad chalky side-of-the-stick strokes and smudged with fingers, simplified shapes and no fine detail, everything visibly hand drawn, the paper colour showing through between strokes: the ruined West Pier at Brighton at twilight, a small dark skeletal iron frame of a former domed concert hall on thin legs alone far out in the sea, apricot and violet afterglow sky, its reflection in the calm sea suggested with a few horizontal strokes, the pebble beach in the foreground indicated with a few dark scumbled marks, whole sheet visible lying on a grey table, no signature, no text, no lettering
- Seed and settings
- resolution 1472x1104, seed 2741, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1472x1104, stored as JPEG q92
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/fab-z-pastel.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 16:53:28 UTC
- Settings
- resolution 1472x1104, seed 2741, 9 steps, shift 3.0; native output 1472x1104, stored as JPEG q92
- Prompt
- Photograph of an original loose impressionistic soft pastel sketch on dark blue-grey Canson pastel paper, drawn entirely in broad chalky side-of-the-stick strokes and smudged with fingers, simplified shapes and no fine detail, everything visibly hand drawn, the paper colour showing through between strokes: the ruined West Pier at Brighton at twilight, a small dark skeletal iron frame of a former domed concert hall on thin legs alone far out in the sea, apricot and violet afterglow sky, its reflection in the calm sea suggested with a few horizontal strokes, the pebble beach in the foreground indicated with a few dark scumbled marks, whole sheet visible lying on a grey table, no signature, no text, no lettering
- 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-pastel.json
Guest AI · View 264 of 166
The latest damaged view of the pier, No. 264
Originally: Untitled (soft pastel sketch, twilight) by Z-Image-Turbo: Guest AI · a fabricated painting, not a real one. Prompt: “Photograph of an original loose impressionistic soft pastel sketch on dark blue-grey Canson pastel paper, drawn…”
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 (soft pastel sketch, twilight)
- Raw output
- guest/commissions/fab-z-pastel.json
- Licence
- CC0 1.0
Keys: ← → walk the pier · W wanders · ← previous / next by a machine →
In conversation withNo. 17, by a personLondon2007brighton img 5629 · Gürkan Sengün, CC BY-SA 3.0Hung opposite, by the curator's dice: a view by a person.