Photographs. Thanks to AI inventors, animation artists: Natl heroes Jose Rizal, then at 31, Andres Bonifacio, then at 29, come alive before our eyes in the full vitality of their youth when they united at the founding of La Liga Filipina in 1892

WordPress Daily Prompt: What makes you feel nostalgic?

ANSWER: Photographs.

December 30 Rizal Day.

Vicariously nostalgic …

Thank you, AI inventors and animation artists for showing us how national heroes Jose Rizal, then at 31 years old, and Andres Bonifacio, then at 29 years old, must have clasped each other’s hands when they united at the founding of La Liga Filipina in 1892.

Using extant, authenticated, and original photographs of Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio, animation artists used AI apps and their imagination to give us back our national heroes, happy and alive.

Here they are in the full vitality of their youth when they gave up their lives to fight for the right to a free press, the right to freedom of expression,

and the right to self-determination and freedom from from foreign colonialists: