as a child I wanted the ability to conceive of an idea and for it to magically take shape into reality. with the emergence of localised ai art generation and a SLA 3d printer in my posession right before the start of my final year, that wish seemed to have found me. the timing was almost heaven sent, a theme that developed and persisted. inspired by insular celtic manuscripts, I sought to formulate work which anticipated art from the future but utlistilsing ai art generation’s uncanny imperfections to simulate the trauma of excavtiing ancient relics. developement for the design of the relief can be viewed here and the design for my book can be seen here, along with the contents of the pages here