I am sitting in a room
is the first book by eclectic jazz and arts duo Brooklyn Rose Ludlow and James O'Connor. It's a free-flowing, long-form poem inspired by Alvin Lucier's 1969 sound art piece of the same name. An unnamed narrator traverses beautiful and bizarre environments while grappling with questions from their own life — memories, dreams, promises made.
The words are visualized through a series of illustrations by Brooklyn Rose Ludlow in collaboration with Midjourney and OpenAI's DALL-E 2. The artistic process involved generating over 3000 images which were meticulously curated, post-processed, and overpainted to create the final set of illustrations.
So even the amaranth will rest its petals
And in Easter winds the dandelions fly
Leaving the world to the children who follow.
Bore yellow, bred from dust.
Would any path taken be the same as yours?