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The Inoffensively Strange Bushbuck
Random inspiration: inoffensively strange bushbuck
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The bushbuck had been waiting for the painting to arrive for three days. It had been told the painting would depict it, inoffensively strange, standing exactly as it stood now. When the movers finally left with the crate unopened, the bushbuck did not react. It simply adjusted its weight slightly to the left, as if to accommodate a frame that was not there, and continued to stare at the blank wall where the painting would have been, had it not been lost in transit. The room remained empty. The light did not change.
The brief
A single inoffensively strange bushbuck stands motionless in the center of a dimly lit, unfurnished room, its coat a muted blend of ochre and slate, eyes fixed on a wall where no painting hangs, under a single bare bulb casting a flat, yellowish glow that eliminates all shadows.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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