The People of the Stone


Premise

The alternative creation myth of a people who worship stones. I used AR to create a collaborative reading system in which multiple people must hold holy texts up to the image to trigger its full realization. The imagery draws on linguistic and scientific diagrams to generate, then manipulate and remix AI images into a visual language.
Some spreads from the book of stone mythology: the creation myth of the people and allegories related to a series of animals:


When four copies of the text are placed correctly on the poster, it triggers an AR that shows the perfect, original stone:


Examples of AI-generated images I used for image-making: