BUCKET EXHIBITIONS: ALBU-BRIJES -- SUMMARY, JULY 2026

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We were inspired by the HUGE 20 feet tall ALEBRIJES & NAHUALES sculptures from Oaxaca installed 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.

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

ComfyUI TripoSplat

SuperSpl.at

View our ALBU-BRIJES together

as Gaussian Splats

(28 MB link)

OUR LINOCUT

ALBU-BRIJES

We are calling the ALBUQUERQUE variations -- ALBU-BRIJES:

ALBU-BRIJE PROGRESS

The linocut prints of our own ALBU-BRIJIE versions

of ALEBRIJES

PROCESS

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

KREA

MESHY

EzGIF

Linocut print into colorful 3D version

using AI

AUGMENTED REALITY

Two Approaches

ALBU-BRIJES

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

First Approach

ENVIRONMENT AR

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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 the environment 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 ALL 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

Second Approach

MULTIPLE AR

MINDAR

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

July 31, 2026

After going to the QR CODE on the bench,

hover 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.

The first YouTube of the ALEBRIJES in Albuquerque with Classic Cars, but without the prints:

MORE ALEBRIJES -- Real and Fake

ALEBRIJES and NAHUALES with Classic Cars in Albuquerque

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While not previously interacting with the Oaxaca Alebrijes, we have been working with Oaxacan printmakers since 2014, culminating in the AMBOS LADOS International Print Exchange, organized by both El Paso and Oaxaca: