Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Thread. 1/ Having fun with the just-released, cloud-based AI app, Deep Nostalgia. Here, animating a statue of the Maitreya Buddha in Thiksey monastery, Ladakh.

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Quoted by@Hallowedart Frankly, I rarely use AI, but on occasion I'm inspired by its archetypal properties as they relate to, say, the co-evolutionary aesthetics of planetary messianism. Here, for example, 'Maitreya in the style of Fr. John Guilliani's 'Lakota Victory Christ' (2023)' and other efforts.Quoted by@DalrympleWill 1/ We might expect #ThichNhatHanh’s averral that the next Buddha, #Maitreya, “might not take the form of an individual, but a community,” reflected, naturally, in evolving representations of the form. The universal sangha, as fluid, syncretic, planetary archetype, for example.Quoted by#seedmantra #nofilter #agrariansharingnetwork