Orifice Oracle, 2024; stuffed fabric, wire, 42" x 42" x 42"
The inspiration for this stuffed fabric sculpture comes from generative AI images for the Human Horizon series produced via image prompts of my sculpture Bedtime Stories for Oankali. Oankali are alien creatures in Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis novels that interbreed with humans. This piece thereby evokes an opening to a hybrid relationship with alien intelligence both in its form and its process of becoming.
Orifice Oracle (detail), 2024
Oankali sculpture to Human Horizon GenAI to sculpture process chart