I posted this in my gallery earlier this summer. I like using Midjourney to explore how the AI might interpret certain ideas. I asked the AI to illustrate the story of Eleanor Rigby and Father MacKenzie, from the classic Beatles song, by feeding it bits of the relevant lyrics. I thought I should share a collage of some of the better interpretations illustrating the story. Hope you like it.

"Eleanor Rigby" (lyrics by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, released in 1966)

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Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby

Picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been

Lives in a dream

Waits at the window

Wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door

Who is it for?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie

Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear

No one comes near

Look at him working

Darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there

What does he care?

All the lonely people

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people

Where do they all belong?

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby

Died in the church and was buried along with her name

Nobody came

Father McKenzie

Wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave

No one was saved

All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people)

Where do they all come from?

All the lonely people (ah, look at all the lonely people)

Where do they all belong?