Among the Clouds — Monai Lisai by Pública Rework: Five Centuries, One Print

Among the Clouds by Pública Rework is a fine art print that places three distinct historical moments onto a single surface: da Vinci's Mona Lisa, a nineteenth-century French aeronautical advertisement, and a modern AI working as a fictive artist. The result is not a remix. It is something closer to a conversation, one that stretches across five centuries of image-making.

Pública Rework has taken some of the most recognisable imagery in Western visual history and allowed it to coexist with something entirely new. The print invites you to sit with a question that has no clean answer: what happens when things that were never meant to meet are brought together with careful intent?

Three Sources, One Surface

The first source is one of the most studied images in existence. Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo, painted between 1503 and 1506, is a work that has accumulated meaning across centuries. The second is more obscure: Le Ballon, a chromolithograph by Imprimeur E. Pichot, produced for a French aeronautical journal advertisement in the nineteenth century. Sky, cloud, the ambition of flight, captured in a commercial print. The third is the newest and the least physical: a modern AI, described by Pública Rework as a fictive artist, present in the composition as a creative force without a biography or a history.

What connects these three is not immediately obvious. That gap is part of what makes the print compelling. Pública Rework has composed the elements with careful attention to colour fidelity and visual tension, allowing each source to retain its own character while becoming part of something larger.

What Pública Rework Brings to the Work

Pública Rework operates at the intersection of art history and contemporary image-making. The practice takes material that already exists in the world and reconsiders it. Not to improve on the original, but to ask a different question of images we think we already know.

In Among the Clouds, the Mona Lisa is not a reproduction. She is a participant. The balloon and its atmospheric lines are not background detail. They are structural. And the AI contribution is not a novelty layered on top. It is, as the studio describes it, a fictive artist, one who leaves traces without intent, personality, or memory.

The print also opens onto a broader conversation about creativity and authorship, one that has no tidy conclusion. Who made this? What does it mean to make something new from things that already exist? Those are real questions. This work holds them without forcing an answer.

For another NOKUKO print that explores the boundary between the real and the imagined, see Imaginary Ocean by Alantherock.

Among the Clouds is printed on Fine Art Freja paper at 265 gsm, a paper selected for its ability to hold colour with precision over time. It arrives ready to frame, in three sizes. Whether it hangs in a hallway or above a workspace, it tends to draw attention from people who are curious about where things come from.

Some prints are decorative. This one is a document of an unusual creative moment. The kind that makes you wonder why it took this long for these things to share a surface.

About Among the Clouds — Monai Lisai

What paper and printing method are used?
Among the Clouds is printed on Fine Art Freja paper (265 gsm), a premium fine art paper chosen for accurate colour reproduction and long-lasting quality.

What sizes are available?
The print comes in three sizes: 30×40 cm, 50×70 cm, and 70×100 cm.

Is this a limited edition?
This is a curated edition by Pública Rework, available exclusively through NOKUKO. It is not an open edition.

Is a frame included?
No. The frame shown in product images is for illustrative purposes only and is not included with the print.