AI & Visual Experiments AI-generated

Shared Breaths: The Existential Fusion of Man and Oxen in Nuer Culture

For South Sudan’s Nuer people, cattle embody wealth, spirituality, identity, and belonging. This AI-generated visual album explores their profound bond through surreal compositions merging human anatomy with oxen’s horns, hooves, and features. Set against golden savanna sunsets, the images reimagine folklore and anthropology through contemporary visual art, questioning the boundaries between human and animal, culture and nature, and identity and land.

11 photographs

AI-generated image: a boy stands beside a long-horned bull at sunset.

AI-generated image: three boys stand in a cattle camp; the one in the centre wears a horned headdress.