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"Danmaku Drawing" is a graphic work made by manipulating parameters within SHMUP Creator, a game development tool for bullet hell shooters. By repurposing a game design tool as a drawing instrument, the work observes bullet trajectories and patterns outside the context of gameplay. The dense, kinetic arrangements that fill the screen emerge as unintended abstract compositions—and it is these moments that the series captures. The zine is printed using risograph.

This zine began as an attempt to generate typography with Stable Diffusion—and a repeated failure to do so. Rather than pursuing legibility, we embraced the breakdown: letterforms that drift toward abstraction, almost unreadable, yet still retaining faint traces of writing.
Graffiti is writing. Prompting an AI is also writing. And graffiti letterforms, to eyes without the literacy to read them, appear as pure form detached from meaning—it was this quality that we wanted to extract and bring into typography.

This zine began as an attempt to transform scribbles, calligraphy, and gestural mark-making into typographic forms through AI.
Forms resembling the letter "A" appeared repeatedly, without being explicitly prompted. Why "A"—we don't know. The density of training data, or perhaps the visual simplicity of the form. What remains is simply the fact that it kept appearing.