The Diptych

The Two Kings

Two women. A child. A king.

Draw one story across the other.

Rubens's Judgment of Solomon: two women appeal before the king. A generated counterpart places the figures in the siege of Samaria.

The picture has a place for you.

Take the seat Two acts, heard from the king’s seat. Headphones recommended.

Two books,
one practice.

The paintings

The first image reproduces Rubens’s Judgment of Solomon. The second is an existing machine-generated interpretation of the siege of Samaria, derived from that composition. Their visual correspondence is an authored construction.

The biblical passages are 1 Kings 3:16–28 and 2 Kings 6:24–30. The spatial room uses modeled figures, generated environments, and recorded voices.