Almost Remembered is a series of animated GIFs created through a process that moves back and forth between digital and physical stages. Small images of brutalist buildings are first generated with a tiny diffusion model running locally, then printed on a thermal receipt printer, scanned back into the computer, and finally glitched through a custom-made program. I like the idea that the image never really exists in a clean or final form, but keeps changing every time it passes from one medium to another. The limitations of the small model, the roughness of thermal printer, the scanner and the glitches all leave something behind, noise, textures, distortions and small imperfections that slowly become part of the work itself.

There is also something in this process that reminds me of how memories work. A memory is never really a faithful recording of what happened, but more like a reconstruction of it. It starts from something real, but every time we recall it we somehow rewrite it, losing details, adding others, distorting or even hallucinating parts without realizing it. In a way, these images go through a similar process, they start from a recognizable reality, but every passage changes them a little, until what remains is not really the original anymore, but a strange and imperfect memory of it.