Fabio Matos Cruz is a visual artist based in Lisbon, Portugal. He creates images from the space between memory and imagination. Blending generative AI with a photographer’s eye, he constructs alternate realities that feel familiar yet unreal, fragments of moments that never happened. In series like "Faces" and "Shadows", his work explores presence through absence, where faces blur, shadows linger and meaning emerges in what’s left unseen. He is fascinated by how AI can simulate the texture of reality, not to replicate the world, but to reinvent it. Through this process, he explores how truth can be felt in images that are entirely invented. Fabio’s prompts and images are featured in Spells Volume 2.