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Mirage was develped from 2 key places. 1 xeriscape was a proejct cerated to expand on my existing expericen in imagery. bulding workflows and rrorublohting to see if i could tranflate myex epriance into a entiely ai proejct. mirage is not that. it was always intended to have motion, a space i had spent so mch time trying to perfct, would ahve a human story to gie the space a larger presence outsdie of jsut being a sape. 
at the tialend of finsihing je finl aimges, i started to think passivliy aovut what story i could tell, who would i envision being int his home, their history and the compelxity of how to put this into a preoct i could use as a foantonal hero for my bransd. 

that came 2 night later when i was wthcing a documentary on luther vandross (”You stopped lvoing me” is a beautiful song), and old friends weere spekaing aobut him, in it, 3 of his old backup singers, now in thier 60’s were on screen , dressed so cool, and jsut so smooth. 

That where the idea came from, and my lvoe for the last days of the analog age and 80’s music naturally made this uphill climb less hadwind, and clser to tialwind. 

saidah, marcus and maxi were cerated via gornded reasrch in respct for all the real musicians of that era, and my own ideas about what i 

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