Santos works with Midjourney for this project. In her prompts, she incorporates reclaimed diasporic languages such as Filipinx, Filipina, Pinay, Chicana, Black, and Jeepney. Along with common grassroots activities like poster making, food drives, and outdoor communal gatherings. Similar to previous works, she employs digital painting to reproduce Boycott Grapes UFW posters and imagined Mujeres de Aztlan San Jose ephemera.
Jeepney Girls
This project highlights 27 AI text prompt-generated images to explore algorithms in relationship to diasporic language and grassroots histories in San Jose, California. Pairing the 6 in x 4 in printed AI images with a found vintage photo album book, the fictional story of the Jeepney Girls materializes while questioning AI mechanisms through its figure glitches, obscured texts, and overly idealistic depiction.