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We were inspired by the HUGE 20 feet tall ALEBRIJES & NAHUALES sculptures from Oaxaca in downtown Albuquerque from June 1st to July 22nd, 2026 -- and decided to carve our own linocut visions as ALBU-BRIJES, which we then enhanced with AUGMENTED REALITY using AI:

ALBU-BRIJES -- Alebrijes & Prints

ALEBRIJES are a folk art from Oaxaca which originated in Mexico City in 1936, after Pedro Linares envisioned these chimera animals during an intense illness. When he recovered he made the colorful animals in cartonería (papier-mâché), which got the attention of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.

ZOZOBRA in Santa Fe was inspired by the same Mexican cartonería (papier-mâché) tradition that ALEBRIJES sprung from

OUR LINOCUTS

ALBU-BRIJE PROGRESS

The linocut prints of our own ALBU-BRIJIE versions

of ALEBRIJES

AUGMENTED REALITY

Two Approaches

ALBU-BRIJES

We first enhanced the black-and-white ALBU-BRIJE Prints by coloring and turning them into 3D with AI:

And then we import the colorful 3D version into two different versions of AUGMENTED REALITIES:

ENVIRONMENT AR

First Approach

The colorful AI-enhanced ALBU-BRIJES can be placed in the environment with AUGMENTED REALITY by using their smart phones -- which allows people to take screen shots, as if the ALBU-BRIJES were real:

ALBU-BRIJES --

Albuquerque Alebrijes and Prints --

PART 2

An Augmented Reality ALBU-BRIJE

next to a Real ALEBRIJE sculpture

in downtown Albuquerque

We used <model-viewer> to generate these environment AUGMENTED REALITY experiences

ALBU-BRIJES -- Real and Augmented

We further animated the ALBU-BRIJES

with AI

View the ALBU-BRIJES from THIS WEBPAGE -- or just click the blue links below to see the Augmented Reality by the following artists:

Virgil

Virgil2

Karl

Barbara

Casandra

Casandra2

Henry

Ellie

MULTIPLE AR

Second Approach

Or view multiple AUGMENT REALITIES after going to just One Single URL. One can just hoover their smart phone over the prints, and then a colorful AUGMENTED REALITY figure will emerge. The prints act like QR Codes after going to the URL:

July 31, 2026

After going to the QR CODE on the bench,

hoover your smart phone over each of the three prints,

to see three different colorful ALBU-BRIJES figures emerge

We used MINDAR to generate the multiple AUGMENT REALITY program (which then has to be hosted on a server)

MINDAR -- ALBU-BRIJES

The MINDAR Augmented Reality experience,

using the print like a QR code

MINDAR -- ALBU-BRIJES

Three prints generate

three different AUGMENTED REALITY figures

We were really excited to see the huge ALIBRIJE Sculptures from Oaxaca in downtown Albuquerque this summer -- and even more sorry to see them go. They really elevated the mood and feeling of downtown.

Moreover we have been interacting with Oaxacan printmakers since 2014, culminating in the

AMBOS LADOS International Print Exchange, organized by both El Paso and Oaxaca: