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The Seasonally Adjusted Eider
Random inspiration: seasonally adjusted eider
AI-generated painting and story
The story
The eider had been seasonally adjusted last Tuesday, a procedure involving minor recalibration of its internal thermostat and a brief, polite apology from the facility’s avian compliance officer. It now waits, as instructed, for the next seasonal shift to trigger its automatic moult cycle. The room does not judge. The light does not change. The duck, for its part, has stopped wondering why it was chosen. It simply stands, waiting for the signal that never comes, and wondering if the ochre on its breast is fading, or if it was never there to begin with.
The brief
A single eider duck stands motionless on a polished linoleum floor in a featureless white room, its feathers slightly ruffled by an unseen draft, under the flat, shadowless glow of a ceiling-mounted fluorescent panel, the only colour a muted slate-blue in its wing and the faintest hint of ochre along its breast.
The painting and the story were written from this same scene, so the two describe one moment.
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