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"Recently, I met an extraordinary person who transformed my relationship with time. She invited me to read Simulacres et Simulation by Jean Baudrillard, in which Baudrillard describes four successive phases of the image: One, it is the reflection of a profound reality; two, it masks and distorts this reality; three, it masks the absence of a profound reality; and four, it has no relation to reality, becoming its own simulacrum.  
  
These AI-generated dreamscapes combine the four phases, perhaps going beyond pareidolia because interpolation is required both from the emitter and observer.  
  
Consider a family gathering in a field watching a massive shooting star and its trail of dust above them: I dreamt this based on a real-life experience after I had just lost a member of my family. She was there and she was gone at the same time. Now, try to count the family members gathered in the field. It's impossible; however, we see a family emerging from this soup of pixels--this is a pareidolia. The image is a reflection of something I've experienced, yet it inevitably distorts reality. In the end, it may be its own simulacrum."  
  
Extract of an interview of aurèce vettier by Elisabeth Sweet for LeRandom, as part of Bright Moments in Paris, February 2024.