In Brulue, nothing stays still. Brutal shapes emerge from soft blue haze. Creatures flicker at the edge of recognition. Here, the laws of nature dissolve into dream logic, and visual stories unfold like whispered myths. With Vague Tale of Brulue, artist Rangga Purnama Aji crafts an ecosystem of the unfamiliar, a speculative world unmoored from geography and time, where the viewer is not just invited, but required to interpret, to imagine, to wander. Today, we’re excited to unveil a brief interview with artist Rangga about their series of works on TITLES.

Rangga’s starting point and evolution through music and movement

Rangga’s journey into the world of Brulue didn’t begin with images at all. It began with sound. As a composer, live coder, and electronic musician, Rangga’s early creative practice was built around improvisation and sonic experimentation. But even in those early years, his work resisted neat categorization. Dance and theatre from his childhood, video art, and generative visuals all flowed into a multidisciplinary approach to storytelling — one that treated every medium as a portal.

“These multi-practices shaped me. Everything feeds into everything else.”

Rather than arriving fully formed, Rangga’s AI art practice evolved slowly and organically, emerging from uncertainty and experimentation. Spaces for creativity like TITLES became both a canvas and a codebase — places where music, imagination, and machine learning could blend. This is when Brulue began to take form. Rangga wanted to try something different. Something with more lore and narrative.

Building the world of Brulue

Where many artists allow AI to generate imagery through broad or random prompts, Rangga chose a more intentional path. Brulue was not born of automation. Rather, it was built.

Influenced by a lifetime of fantasy stories, MMORPGs, Indonesian mythology, and speculative biology videos, Rangga channeled these inspirations into a series of prompts designed to function like genetic code. Each input was structured with purpose: a base of colors, followed by object types, followed by environment. The order mattered. The energy mattered…

“Since childhood, I’ve loved imagining how life could exist in strange environments.”

Creatures in the series feel almost plausible, as if they might exist in some post-human future or alternate evolutionary timeline. Yet they never fully resolve, remaining suspended in ambiguity. Rangga sought to avoid pure randomness and wanted to see everything belong to the same ecosystem. Using TITLES’ image-to-image tools, Rangga began with a single artwork — a piece that would become both anchor and origin myth for the series.

The Sentinel Tree as the spark for the series

The Sentinel Tree of Golden Miasma was not originally created for this series, but it became the seed that changed everything. A swirling form with golden veins and looming presence, the piece captured the essence Rangga had been chasing — that brutal, alien energy that echoes his musical compositions. It held a duality of serene and strange, violent and majestic. A perfect embodiment of the world he wanted to grow.

From that image, a custom base prompt was written — one Rangga could modify in endless iterations while maintaining a unified visual language. Each piece, though unique, belonged to the same genetic family. Some featured humanoid silhouettes, others morphed into beast-like entities or terrain. All shimmered with the same spectral, saturated style.

“The brutality fascinated me — in my music, and now, in my artwork.”

A story without a map

Where Rangga’s earlier works might include explanatory notes or detailed captions, he made the deliberate choice to strip Brulue of overt narrative scaffolding. Instead, he leaves breadcrumbs in the form of titles, and trusts the viewer to do the rest.

“Maybe letting no descriptions be available invites people to make sense of it in their own way. I think I'm happy and felt warm with this choice of style since it really compliments the combination of one of my AI models on Titles (the one called ‘Solid Ethereal Cloud’) and my yearned imagination from what inspires me to make this series.”

This shift transforms Brulue from a traditional art collection into something more like an interactive fable. Without text to guide us, we fall into each scene like explorers or dreamers, crafting meaning from what we see and feel. The result is a body of work that resists ownership even by the artist.

Closing

The series is a conversation between artist and algorithm, memory and imagination, signal and noise. In embracing the ambiguity of AI, Rangga has created something rare: a visual world with the soul of a myth, and the openness of a dream. Explore the full Vague Tale of Brulue collection on TITLES, here. Finally, please follow Rangga on X, Farcaster, and TITLES.

Much Love,

- TITLES