The White Passage

The White Passage” is a visual exploration of the universal cycle of life, captured through AI-generated portraits and video transformation. The work traces the journey from childhood to old age, using a single face evolving across time. Each stage is depicted with hyper-realistic detail: the innocence of a child, the strength of an adult, and the fragility of an elder.

The concept behind the work is the idea of transition — from light into shadow, from birth to silence. The portraits are not static; they are interwoven with digital distortions, lines, and dissolving textures, symbolizing memory, impermanence, and the fragile passage of existence. The gradual morphing video deepens this narrative, creating a seamless flow where one life stage transforms into the next without interruption.

Technically, the piece combines AI image generation (MidJourney + refinement techniques) with morphing and editing tools to build both still and moving images. The AI was used partially to generate hyper-realistic portraits that resemble the same character at different ages, while post-processing gave them coherence in light, mood, and atmosphere.

Themes of the work include time, identity, universality, and mortality. Although deeply personal in its resonance, the imagery is intentionally stripped of cultural or historical markers, allowing the viewer to see it as a mirror of the human condition itself.

This project is an attempt to visualize the invisible — the passage of a human soul through stages of existence, where light is both the beginning and the end.

 

 

This artwork includes a video
The White Passage is a poetic meditation on the universal cycle of life. Through the gradual transformation of faces — from childhood to youth and finally to old age — the work reflects on how time reshapes our physical form while an inner light remains unchanged. The figures are rendered almost translucent, albino silhouettes, dissolving into streams of light and shadow as if passing through memory itself.

Created with AI-generated imagery and morphing techniques, the video emphasizes continuity rather than rupture. The subject never turns away but keeps looking forward, as if facing eternity. Stripped of color, framed in white light and abstract textures, the piece becomes less about individual identity and more about the essence of existence. The White Passage invites the viewer to reflect on mortality, memory, and the silent journey that connects all stages of human life.