“DALL.E_MBRYO”, an expedition into the generative primordial abyss by Daisie Jacobs.

In one sense the ‘lifeforms’ depicted in these images never lived - there was no fertilisation or conception; there are no bones or viscera; no blood and no arteries to carry it. They exist only as we perceive them here - uncanny and eternal, calcified in digital amniotic stasis. Free from pain and decay, and devoid of human potential.

In another, each pair of glossy black eyes and each six fingered hand have lived, are living and will live hundreds of thousands of lives - the earliest images of which fed the algorithm that created Jacobs’ specimens.”