What do we hunger for?
Desire doesn’t speak in full sentences; it leaks, stains, lingers. Many people hide what they want to make themselves appear controlled, tidy. Desire has a way of revealing the parts we’re told to conceal, the gluttonous, the needy, the tender rot beneath restraint.
Rate My Cake is an attempt to stay with that hunger. To let it speak, not in language, but in images. The project is made with AI, though I hesitate to say made. The machine and I coexisted, reflected each other. The cakes in the images are not real. They’re too soft, too glossy, too wrong in just the right way. They’re overlit, undercooked and melting. Somewhere in them is my face. I trained the AI on my own portrait, dissolving it into the dataset, letting my skin merge with the sugary textures. I wanted to see if desire could take the shape of a self-portrait.