temple of forbidden desires is an introspection ritual disguised as buzzfeed quiz – "which disney princess are you?" but for your actual shadow self: personality testing meets confessional booth.

the core mechanic is simple: click through prompts that force confrontation with your own forbidden longings. the AI model reflects back your implicit biases, autocompletes your half-formed ideas, and shows you the logical endpoints of your reasoning. traditional therapy requires you to verbalize the unconscious: AI reverses this. it verbalizes first, then you recognize (or reject) what resonates. the ritual aesthetic transforms personal reflection into something that feels transgressive and meaningful.

in flesh & form context, it flips the gallery dynamic to private digital intimacy inside a public physical space. the exhibition becomes background; the computer screen becomes the gallery.

temple of forbidden desires reveals how large language models can function as digital oracle bones when patterns emerge from randomness that force us to interpret our own psychological noise as signal. the forbidden framing gives permission to explore what normally stays hidden. the unconscious speaks in symbols and associations. so does AI.

michael bracklo builds digital spaces at the intersection of art & technology and runs KLTR.berlin with nora soliman.