The world had changed; the advent of the digital age had upended everything. Books, those precious paper jewels, had been replaced by screens, bits, and bytes. Information and culture were accessible with a simple click, a convenience so quick and easy that most people had forgotten the very existence of libraries.
In the cities, the majestic buildings once dedicated to books were now abandoned, their imposing architecture now just a shadow of a distant past in a fully digital civilization.
As an extension of his photographic approach, Francis experiments with artificial intelligence to evoke imaginary worlds in a near future profoundly impacted by the digital age, climatic upheavals, and geopolitical shifts.