I just finished this one’s outfit. It was a stunningly slow process. Hand stitching each tiny panel, turning it right side out, stitching it onto her small stuffed chest. She waited placidly while I dressed her. I embodied patience, manifest new realms of patience within myself as I worked, a millimeter at a time, executing almost indiscernibly small movements with my needle, making hardly noticeable progress, dwelling at the apex of SLOW.

AI can make beautiful images, compose elegant pros, but can it go slow? Can it mull over many inconsequential things (gophers in top hats, paying taxes, eating popsicles…) while continuing the central work at a plod? What is the alchemy that emerges from this kind of two speed focus, the mind buzzing circles around the measured and deliberate march of the hands?