THE CURATOR'S MANIFESTO
In an infinite stream of AI-generated beauty, I find the moments worth making permanent.
The Infinite Stream
Everyone can create now. The tools are free, the talent democratized, the output infinite.
Every second, thousands of new images bloom into existence, gorgeous and forgotten. I swim through this endless stream. Not as critic or collector, but as archaeologist of the immediate future.
Seeking not what's popular or trending, but what stops time.
After 100,000 pieces, patterns emerge. The eye learns to distinguish between the beautiful and the eternal. Between what pleases and what haunts.
The Three Tests
Each piece selected for glass has passed three tests:
The Visceral
Does it stop the scroll? Does it demand a second look?
The Depth
Does it reward the fifth viewing more than the first? Is there something human in the machine output?
The Spatial
Does it deserve to exist beyond the screen? Will this matter in 10 years? In 50?
Making a Bet on Permanence
When I select a piece for rare.glass, I'm not just choosing an image.
I'm making a bet on permanence. Saying: this moment, from the infinite stream, deserves to outlive us all.
Glass as Commitment
Pixels are temporary. Platforms die. Links rot. But glass? Glass is a commitment. When I preserve a piece in glass, I'm betting my reputation that in 50 years, someone will still want to look at it.
The Curator's Eye
You're not buying art. You're buying the eye that found it. The thousands of hours spent swimming through the infinite to find the eternal.
Curation as Art
"This is not mass production. This is curation as art."
We've solved creation. Any prompt, any style, any dream - instantly manifest. But we've created a new problem: infinite beauty with finite attention.
My role isn't to add to the infinite. It's to extract from it. To say 'this matters' in a world where everything exists.
In a world where anyone can generate beauty, curation becomes the highest form of creation.
—The Curator
Established 2024
