Dor de Tara is an experimental fanzine that was born during the International Design Week in Graz, Austria. Its concept comes from within: "dor de tara" means "homesick" in romanian. I was inspired by the nostalgia I feel when revisiting photo albums from my childhood in Romania, before moving to Spain. I can't fully recognize those memories, so they appear as diffuse and somewhat strange memories. I wanted to play with this concept of nostalgia, the contrast between real and invented memories, and photography as a tool to evoke past and forgotten times.
For this I used Midjourney, an artificial intelligence that creates new images from existing ones. I wanted to explore how to use it in an ethical way, without using content from other artists. Therefore, what I did was collect photographs from my childhood and merge them using AI without involving any additional prompts, so as not to condition the appearance of the image based on the style of another artist; thus, the AI relies solely on the selected photographs (my own photographs) to create a new one.