Mememoirés
Series of visual juxtapositions of found imagery (abstract visual diary) created w/ custom made Processing app.
More images can be found here.
Application
I’ve built primitive app to ease my ways to make images. It’s simple drag’n’drop plus navigation through files BUT without any adjustments. You cannot crop images as you like or tinker with colours, exposure, etc.
Images are juxtaposed pixel by pixel in a chessboard manner (half and half) so they’re are merged into one another. This pixel perfect precision cause some kind of moiré effect (on non-retina displays especially) which I really like. This effect is crucial for the final result with it’s surreal and crisp feeling which you cannot achieve with mere blending.
Website
All images are hosted on a simple Tumblr (yeah I know) blog.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any copyright for sourced images. So if I use your image and you want it to be removed from series, please, contact me.
Name
Initially the project was named CNFSD (Confused) and subtitled “Intimate Pop Project”. And even earlier it was “Confused & Confused” after the song “Dazed & Confused”.
Listening to the Public Image Ltd. recently I misread track “Memories” in a french manner as “Memoires” and thought that’s appropriate name for this project and how lucky I am — only to discover a SI book by Guy Debord and Asger Jorn with the same name (the one with sandpaper dust cover).
But anyway I decided to emphasise Moiré part with some french diacritic and the part with found yet personal imagery with “meme” part.
So it's Mememoirés now.
Renamed after 9 years.
In use:
It could be nice LP packaging I think.
PS
The project started as a little study for Mumiy Troll album cover with a brief stated to use two images provided by frontman and author Ilya Laguteko, which I found unusable. So I literally used them in even proportions.
It didn’t work out.
Then I've started to fiddle around with app, trying things out and it's struck me — years before I've made a postcard juxtaposing photo displayed on my laptop with street lights by reflecting laptop in the window and taking a photo with some point and shoot camera (and if I had film camera on me I'd used it instead).
I think this project consists my professional DNA for the last ten years at least.
2015 — 2024