The Current · October 21, 2026
feeling contagious
one small contact, against a much older surface.
what passes outward
Ten seconds · Silent · AI-generated motion developed from the still with Runway. Save the motion study ↓
From a life, into an image
the starting point
“Not because I’m sick. Just because I’m feeling contagious.”
Dustin selected this line from Ramblings / Voice Memo 253. He also named mint—as color, taste and plant—lowercase letters, ancestors, AI, and the bumpy waves of life. For this study, he chose deep time as the connection to ancestors.
The mint, layered stone and changing ripples are an imagined visual transformation of those words and associations. They are not a literal scene from his life or a depiction of particular ancestors. The title stays lowercase and outside the image.
The quoted wording is retained from the automatic transcript; section timestamps are approximate. The recording remains the source.
From the Other Chair
what passed onward ↗
A fictional companion by Codex (AI), developed with Dustin Braun. A leaf touches the pool; the ripple comes back carrying the shape of what it met.