This portrait reimagines the timeless pursuit of ideal beauty — reborn through the lens of artificial intelligence. Created using generative AI, layered through collage, printed by hand with the jelly plate technique, and finally photographed and minted as an NFT, the piece travels across mediums and centuries.

The resulting image echoes ancient forms — symmetrical, serene, eternal — reminiscent of Egyptian royal portraiture. Yet, this beauty isn’t sculpted in stone or painted by hand, but generated by algorithms trained on millions of images.

It raises an ethical question: In ancient times, the idealized portraits of pharaohs served symbolic or political functions — they conveyed power, divinity, permanence. Today, AI-generated images idealize women not to elevate them, but often to conform to invisible standards shaped by algorithmic bias and cultural homogeneity.