Reorder

Reordering Images, Reordering Time

Lately, I’ve been revisiting some of my older works—drawings, collages, and canvases that had long been archived online in scattered blog posts. What I realized is that showing them as a coherent collection was never something I took the time to do. The images were there, but the structure was missing.

This is where an unexpected little helper came in.

While writing, I stumbled upon the need for a simple but very specific tool: something that could take a raw list of HTML tags and let me easily reorder them—curating a new sequence without manual copy-paste chaos. Normally, this is the kind of task that would get lost on the “someday” pile. Coding a tool from scratch is time-consuming, and honestly, I might never have done it.

But with AI—ChatGPT in my case—I could just prompt the vibe of what I needed, and within minutes, the code existed. The “Image Tag Reorder” was born.

It’s a humble script (you can download it on GitHub), but it opened a door: I can now drag, drop, reorder, and re-present my archive in ways that were inaccessible before. Suddenly, my older works aren’t just random entries in the database—they can be recomposed, reframed, and given new life.

This small experience made me reflect on how AI tools are accelerating the way we approach the tiny, specific, sometimes almost invisible obstacles in our creative flow. Tasks that once required long detours into programming or technical setup can now be solved by simply formulating an idea. The bottleneck is shifting: from technical execution back to imagination and articulation.

For me, this is profound. Because the less energy I spend on fighting with tools, the more energy I can spend on actually making and sharing art.

So here is the first outcome: a curated view of my old works, finally put together in a way I never managed before.

• Daily Cut

• Daily Cut2

• Chronotopes

And here is the tool itself: Download from GitHub

It may be just a SUBROUTINE for rearranging tags. But for me, it’s also a glimpse into a future where technology quietly erases friction and leaves us with more room to create.

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