The Ancestry Triptych, 2024

Oil on Canvases


In challenging modern times, new reports by UNESCO warn that artificial intelligence threatens memory. AI-generated content can fabricate or distort historical records and magnify biases for malicious individuals and hate groups to spread disinformation and create new narratives.


My family and I decided to take various scientific tests to determine our ancestry composition. The results showed I am 10% West African (Ghanaian, Liberian, & Sierra Leonean), 25% Indigenous American (Colombian Central and Western Andes), and 65% Southern European (Portugal, Spain, and Italy).

Learning these specifics inspired The Ancestry Triptych, which I acknowledge by portraying each representative based on my historical understanding of their collective emotional and psychological consciousness.


The Ancestry Triptych consists of the following three works (left to right): The Beginning of the End, Coloniser, and The Defilement of Alkebu-lan.







JUAN DIAZ