{"product_id":"nasser-alshemimry-dual-handle-dallah","title":"Dual-Handle Dallah","description":"\u003cp\u003eDual-Handle Dallah comes from an early 2020 StyleGAN project exploring Saudi material culture through generative image synthesis. Built from a dataset of over one thousand images, the work uses machine learning to form an unstable visual memory of familiar objects, surfaces, and cultural iconography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe central image is a generated dallah with two handles and no pouring spout. It is recognizable, but impossible: the form remains, while the function disappears. This becomes a moment of cultural misrecognition, where the machine preserves the image of an object without understanding the lived knowledge, use, or ritual behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe project combines still images, latent-space walk videos, training-progress grids, and process videos. Together, these forms reveal the model’s attempt to arrive at coherence, while showing how cultural forms are distorted and reassembled through computational systems. In this way, the work treats early AI image synthesis as a form of latent-space archaeology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nasser Alshemimry (DesertF!sh)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55928615895425,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0681\/4489\/0155\/files\/Dual-HandleDallah_-1B.jpg?v=1784301500","url":"https:\/\/gazell.io\/products\/nasser-alshemimry-dual-handle-dallah","provider":"GAZELL.iO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}