Future Mythologies: Persephone

Persephone navigates space carefully - never turning around - and finds beauty.

Future Mythologies is a collaboration between Anne Spalter and Nathaniel Stern for theVERSEverse’s GenText series. It’s a series of 12 poems written in collaboration with text-based AIs, incorporated into videos produced with the help of text-to-image AI. Each explores a character from Greek mythology, with a sci-fi twist. Written and performed by Stern, sound and images by Spalter.

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Persephone

Don’t turn around; just navigate Empty. Take a breath, forget how to breathe. Stare at the moon. Remember how to talk.

Re-dash-member: embody again.

The moon is a trick. It’s full of quiet. We’ll stay up late and watch the stars spin.