Mémoire Des Toits - Inspired by Abbes Saladi

45x40cm by Didier Randot 

Mémoire des toits unfolds like a landscape remembered rather than seen, where rooftops gather into a dense, almost labyrinthine terrain. Birds move through and across these structures, not as separate figures but as extensions of the space itself—linking ground and air, stillness and motion. The composition echoes a meticulous, patterned approach (monochrome Zulej/tiles), where repetition and symmetry shape a phantasmagorical scene. Vegetation, tiled roofs, and hybrid bird forms intertwine, evoking a world suspended between memory and imagination. 

In this layered detail and quiet rhythm, the work resonates with a visual language reminiscent of Abbas Saladi—drawing on dreamlike narratives, ornamental density, and a sense of timeless, almost mythic space influenced by The Thousand and One Nights.  This use of black-and-white tiling is highly evocative of Abbas Saladi’s visual language. In many of Saladi’s works, monochrome patterns serve not merely as decorative motifs but as symbolic thresholds—spaces of transition between the real and the imagined, the earthly and the spiritual. Here, the checkered surfaces lend the composition a sense of order and ritual, anchoring the fantastical proliferation of birds and buildings within a carefully orchestrated structure.