STRATA I B

STRATA|B is a story of a fragment of the city of Bucharest, a time-frame, and digital spaces. Back in 2014, there was a time when interactions between people and the walls of buildings in a part of the old city center were meticulously recorded. I visited these walls, or what was left of them, on a regular basis and photographed them. Many of these traces didn’t last long. Only a very few became sparkling white; some melted into a decaying, grimy grey. The questions I had initially brought with me gave way to new ones: Where do all the colors of these traces go when the wall is cleaned or becomes an indefinite grey plaster altogether? Whose white is it? Can we create city walls that include all those interactions with people? What color pattern would those be? Here began the second part of the project: the construction of a digital space that incorporates – encoded – all the signs and colors originally discovered on the walls that I had previously photographed. In the end, the project contains photographs of the walls observed together with their digital transformations into color grids by the A.I. and its translation into landscapes of words.