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Top image: An AI-generated illustration, in the style of retro-futuristic concept art, featuring a lush rainforest with clear pools and misty light, where multiple disk‑shaped platforms hover like UFOs above water and trees. Waterfalls spill from some structures, while small craft glide between them. A lone figure stands on a red earth bank, emphasising the scale of this futuristic settlement that is deeply embedded within its natural environment. The palette is dominated by cool greens and teals. Bottom image: An AI-generated illustration of a river canyon dense with vegetation and stilted wooden towers. Huge beetle‑shaped airships – each carrying clustered buildings and cables – float above waterways and bridges. Boats and pedestrians move below, suggesting trade and travel. The scene blends organic forms and intricate machinery, creating a whimsical steampunk ecosystem suspended over a jungle city. The palette combines muted greens and browns with touches of reds and metallic greys.
Top image: An AI-generated illustration of a surreal scene of Indigenous people wearing traditional attire and feathered headdresses, standing and moving across a grassy plain under a deep blue sky. They hold large wooden sticks with spherical ends, suggesting a ceremonial or athletic activity. Above them floats a large, spiked, metallic orb, adding a fantastical element to the composition. There are clear elements of AI hallucination in the image. Bottom image: A digital collage in Indigenous Futurist style of a group of Indigenous men dancing a toré in a circle on a grassy surface, bare-chested and wearing long black shorts with vibrant green side panels saying ‘GUERREIROS’ [warriors] on one leg and ‘KAMBIWÁ’ [Indigenous ethnicity] on the other. They are wearing traditional feather headdresses, have traditional fibre bags slung across their chests and each carries a maracá. Behind them looms a massive, vividly coloured planet-like sphere in a starry sky, framed by dramatic clouds, creating a cosmic, dreamlike atmosphere.
Top image: An AI-generated illustration of a futuristic landscape at sunset with vast orange fields dotted with vehicles and people. Floating platforms and aircraft hover in the sky, while distant city structures rise on the horizon. The scene blends advanced technology with open rural spaces in warm, glowing tones. The style evokes a graphic novel or animation concept art aesthetic. Bottom image: An AI-generated illustration of a sci-fi settlement on a rocky, desert-like terrain with mountains in the background suggestive both of other planets and of the Andean highlands. The scene features complex industrial buildings and pipelines, but with rustic, rounded forms. People walk among machinery and structures, while sleek, orange aircraft fly overhead. The composition emphasises scale and human presence within a vast, alien-like environment. The style leans toward retro-futurism, reminiscent of classic sci-fi illustrations.
An AI-generated illustration of a forest scene featuring a large, flowering tree at the centre, adorned with colourful blossoms and vines. People are engaged in various activities around the tree and a thatched-roof house at its base, including dancing, weaving, and socializing, creating a lively depiction of community life in nature. The image uses a vibrant, illustrative style reminiscent of folk art, with flat, decorative forms and detailed patterns. The palette is rich and warm, dominated by greens and earthy tones for the forest, contrasted with bright pinks, reds, and oranges for flowers, clothing, and accents, creating a lively, harmonious composition.
Top image: An AI-generated painting showing a group of Indigenous women all with long loose black hair gathered at a riverbank in a lush forest setting, engaged in traditional cleaning activities. They are wearing simple garments made of natural fibres and some jewellery. There is a canoe and an animal in the background. There are also evident hallucinations with extraneous elements appearing in the centre of the image. The figures are also generally quite blurred. Bottom image: An AI-generated painting of a futuristic cityscape featuring towering green elevated roads covered in vines and foliage. Indigenous people wearing traditional clothing, some bare-chested, walk along an elevated rustic path with Aztec-looking designs above dense jungle, while modern skyscrapers rise in the distance. Below, a road with vehicles runs through the verdant landscape, blending urban and natural environments.
Top image: A photograph of a glowing textile piece with intricate woven patterns and long fringes, emits a soft blue-green light. It is draped in a natural outdoor setting among leaves and branches and a moth is hanging onto the fabric on the right of the image. The fabric’s texture and luminous threads create a striking, ethereal effect. Bottom image: A screenshot of an AI image-generation interface showing four luminous moths with wings resembling delicate woven fabric, glowing in neon green and blue hues against a dark forest background. Their fringed wings and radiant light give the scene a surreal, otherworldly appearance. Overlaid text includes technical details of the image generation process including the text prompt showing the use of a LoRA model.
Two AI-generated photographs. The top image shows a large tree illuminated with vivid blue lights against a dark background, highlighting its branches in a striking, almost ethereal glow. An unseen light source from the left lights up the trunk and leaves. The bottom image shows a flowing, scarf-like structure that seems to radiate bright blue and white light suspended among trees at night, creating a dynamic, wave-like effect against the dark forest backdrop.
Top image: a close-up photograph of a crocheted textile illuminated with vibrant red light, forming the letters ‘TUPÃ’ [God, in Tupi Guarani]. The material’s intricate loops and texture are highlighted against a dark background, creating a striking contrast and luminous effect. Bottom image: a screenshot of a computer screen displaying an AI image generation interface with a photograph of a tree glowing in vivid red light against a dark forest background. The tree’s trunk and branches appear illuminated, creating a striking contrast with the surrounding shadows.

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Amazonian Indigenous Futurist Scenes, images generated with Midjourney v.5.1, June 2023.
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