Rematerializing Stone Mountain: Stitching a Generated Landscape (2026)

Digital print and quilt on Charmeuse fabric

Two suspended panels, each approximately 8.5 meters wide and 2.8 meters high

Rematerializing Stone Mountain: Stitching a Generated Landscape looks at how generative AI can simplify or flatten the complex histories, material qualities, and lived experiences connected to a place. Focusing on Stone Mountain, Georgia—a geological formation, Confederate monument, public park, and contested site of memory—the project turns AI-generated images of the site into a large-scale textile installation.

Fifty-two generated images were combined, printed onto Charmeuse silk, cut apart, stitched back together, and suspended in space. Through this slow, tactile process, the project brings labor, touch, time, material resistance, and bodily experience back into an image originally produced through an automated system. The material intervention becomes a way of reintroducing human interpretation and agency into computational image production.

This project was developed with support from the AIAI Network Seed Grant

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