Mosaic for a Lady
the memories of a life in a canvas
Mosaics are my passion (as you can see in my projects profile) but sometimes i need to expand my skills to answer the challenge from my customers.
This project is about this: can you create a mosaic of a lady using the whole images she collect in an entire life? This is the story on how i answered this question.
The base image
Every mosaic needs a base image. This is the picture you will see standing away from the print. In this case i had e very lovely portrait to work on i just need to some fixing just to be sure the final mosaic would be very pleasant to see.
The masks
Creating a mosaic means creating more than one and then chose the best of simply the one my customer like more. Here i used three different grids: in every colored area you see i'll fix and image from the gallery of memorie she gave me.
The gallery of memories
My client gave a collection of 550 images: some vertical, some orizontal, some from her childhood and some more recent with her grandson. Every image tells a moment of her life. My first step was to crop every images into square formar. Below a selections of images before and after the crop.
Masks + Tiles = Mosaic!
This simple equation generate different results. The mosaic on the left is the classic photomosaic where the base images is created by simply juxtapose the right tile in the right postion to recreate the base imagine. Mosaic B & C are different because the tiles are cut out following the simplified image. The mosaic is fully detaliled.
Mosaics are readable from to distances: from far you can see the base image, from close the base image is less visible and you can observe every single tiles. Below a simulation of what you see when you can close to this mosaic
The Mosaic
And this is the final picture where you can see an whole collection of memories represented into a single image.
The grand finale
It took weeks to get to the final result. The process of realization, which I have described, is digital but completely handcrafterd, with the added value that this term brings with itself.
A very technical but equally artistic elaboration: concentrating a whole life in a single canvas.
I thank this client, who lives on the other side of the world, for having trusted my ability to create such a personal and delicate work.
The great power of the web, I repeat it often, is its ability to create otherwise impossible connections.
With love
Antonio
