Pattern, mask and ancestor

Sculpture, bark cloth, body ornament and mask-making across Africa and the Pacific produced some of the boldest abstraction anywhere — form pared to its essentials, surfaces alive with pattern. European modernism spent the twentieth century catching up with it. These pieces take their cues from that geometry.

Every piece in this collection is generated by AI in the style of a historical movement, then animated. They are original homages — not scans, photographs or reproductions of existing artworks.