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"Bones: Vanishing of the Genuine" explores the beauty of bone and sky in life, death and simulation using analog film photography and AI as inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's bones in the New Mexico sky and Jean Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality. The beauty of the bone floating in the sky with clouds and trees exposes the human perception of the world and the alterations of technology in the form of artificial intelligence. But these bones and the Ai model hold the promise of immortality, the bone outlasts death and perhaps we hope the simulation / simulacra of our creation will also be immortal. Bård examines the authenticity of artifacts by juxtaposing bones, their photographs and AI generated images, questioning the transition from reality to symbol to simulation to simulacra. Through the stages of an AI simulation and process a new reality is constructed.