Kathryn Combs

screen print, 11 × 13”

“The Book of Hours” explores how the concepts of Christian Mysticism have transformed toward technology and, particularly, generative AI. Seeking connection to an unknowable and mysterious power, devotees commit a prayer - a written or spoken request to the mysterious power of the AI to grant their desires. The resulting images reflect what the devotee, and what all of us, wish for: connection, respect, sex, power, beauty, and on and on.

Using appropriated AI images from around the internet and social media, I transform AI slop content into pages of a devotional, a current-day book of hours for reflecting on one’s own connection to human desire and divinity.

screen print, 2025

screen print, 2025