Sorta FAKE ALBUQUERQUE
They were installing large ALBRIJES sculptures across the street that day, so I used AI to transform my figure drawings into FAKE large alebrije sculptures, and placed them in front of the ARRIVE HOTEL, where we drew.
Gesture pose at the SECRET GALLERY
The most evolved/altered image
from this drawing session
Download: "260522A.SVG" (122.37 KB)
KREA Realtime prompt:
"alebrije colorful sculpture from Oaxaca with no background"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
Download: "260522B.SVG" (45.58 KB)
FLOW prompt:
"Can you thicken the lines?"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA 2 Moodboard "Surreal Organic Coilism"
prompt: "sitting woman made of rope"
Download: "260522C.SVG" (105.98 KB)
FLOW prompt: "Thicken these lines unevenly"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
FLOW prompt: "Thicken the dots"
Download: "260522I.SVG" (98.74 KB)
FLOW prompt:
"Can you thicken every other dot in the line?"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
KREA Realtime prompt:
"black and white only dotted lines"
BEN HARRISON ran the drawing session, and hung his drawings on the wall:
Ben's drawings
Ben's drawing of the model
I spotted a new piece in the SECRET GALLERY -- by Adrian Aguirre:
ALEBRIJES
They were putting up these colorful sculptures on the streets before the drawing session. ALEBRIJES AND NAHUALES will be up in downtown Albuquerque from June 1 - July 17, 2026. Only 4 of the 8 sculptures had been installed that day (May 22, 2026):
"The Happy Alien"
"The Armadillo"
Close up from below
of "The Armadillo"
I had a celebrity sighting. Lacey Chrisco and Chandler Wigton curated our Ambos Lados exhibition at the Outpost in Albuquerque in 2022:
Lacey Chrisco and Chandler Wigton
in front of the Gato Parajo alebrije,
Previously I had seen a Parade of Alebrijes in El Paso on November 2, 2019, by Colectivo La Ultima Hora of Mexico City:
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