The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Midjourney prompt

Close-up of an abstract glass vase with glass flowers, minimalist elegance on gray and green canvas, another world in Art Deco style, made of brilliant translucent marble and glass, mysterious lighting, inlaid with fine silver and blue threads, perfect composition, blistered, 3D modelling, substance painter, fantasy, Fujifilm X-T4 with Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R lens, ultra detail, photorealistic, perfect details, hyper-realistic, 4k, 3d –ar 2:1 –style raw –c 50 –weird 50 –s 250 –v 6.1

Note: It’s not unusual for me to spend ($literally$) the neural network cycles to request a half-dozen re-renders to get the image I’m searching for. Sometimes, and not often, the AI will take my idea and run with it. It will hallucinate. Gold.

This image started as a glass flower composition (see the prompt), but during the regeneration process, a shoulder appeared, and the rest, as they say, was history.