Ancestral Intelligence began in 2021 when I trained a machine learning model on the Woodland School. I made it after There Are No Fakes, looking for a way to work with Woodland form without copying anyone's painting. The model gave back bears, birds, dancers and canopies in its own hand: cells, divided fields and heavy line, softened as if seen through water.

The print series holds those outputs as physical works. Ancestral Intelligence V1 is printed on aluminum. Later panels, Ancestor, Canopy, Grass Dancer and Songbird among them, are inkjet on wood at 30 and 40 inches square. I treat the model as a collaborator that carries something of the land and of animism, where everything holds spirit.