How did you use AI to enhance the entire process and create the final product?
Refik Anadol: We have two types of data sets here. One is in the sacred village, where we put a weather station that gets the wind data, temperature, humidity and rain. It’s a live data streaming from the Amazon to the cloud, from cloud to the computer. The second part; Muca and Nawa, these extremely talented young artists wanted to participate with their music, their prayers, their paintings and sculptures. They drew 12 very unique paintings and we took these paintings, their colors, forms, and patterns, and let AI to learn from this data. We fine-tuned an AI model to learn from the Yawanawá culture, so it can dream new versions.

Nixiwaka, what are your thoughts on AI being integrated with your artworks?
Chief Nixiwaka Yawanawá: I am very happy. I am a leader and politician, from the Amazon in Brazil. Forty years ago, I pledged my life to defend the rights of indigenous peoples and the Amazon rainforest. I have never seen a partnership in such a transparent, healthy, respectful way that values the ancestral knowledge of the original peoples, of the indigenous peoples.  I’m here today with Nawashahu’s drawings, together with my daughters Nawashahu and Mukashahu and we’re presenting this collaboration. This is an appreciation of ancestral knowledge. This strengthens us as indigenous peoples and will hopefully help indigenous peoples preserve our culture and maintain our traditions. Now that's true collaboration. I am very happy that these drawings, these songs from my people, come from the female world, from female empowerment, from my daughters. This makes me believe that my spiritual world is feminine, that this moment is the time of spirituality, it is the time of feminine leadership.