Heating Snow

2026
Infinite-loop Short Video Series

Heating Snow is a series of infinite-loop short video series that reconstruct AI-generated imagery through the medium of thermal paper. Through this experimental approach, artist Song Lu constructs a slow collapse within the digital era.

In these visuals, the hand performs as both the primordial tool and the interface of human civilization while acting like a magician. It triggers a continuous shifting and restructuring of forms within a snowy landscape. This is a fiction woven from daily memory, imagination, and the collusion between the artist and the algorithm.

The inherent properties of thermal paper developed by heat and faded by light doom this construction to a tragic fate. It compresses the birth and destruction of the image into the same physical dimension. By placing cutting-edge generative technology upon the cheapest and most fragile of materials, the work shifts its focus from the productivity of the algorithm toward its inevitable dissipation. Each frame developed becomes a deduction of disappearance while accelerating its descent into the physical state of Heat Death.





Still from Heating Snow