Diamojism is a new art form inspired by the portrait mosaics of Chuck Close, reimagined for the digital age. Using a custom-built program, I transform familiar images into expressive visual narratives—constructed entirely from emojis. This is not AI art.

This post is a living gallery — I'll keep adding examples here as new work comes out of the studio. Bookmark it if you want to watch the artform grow.

There is a particular kind of artwork that stops people mid-scroll — a portrait, recognizable and expressive, but made entirely from emoji. Look closely and you see a laughing face, a crescent moon, a red heart, a soccer ball. Step back, and it resolves into a person. This is Diamojism.

Creating a Diamoji mosaic — a photograph or portrait recreated entirely from thousands of tiny emoji — involves two distinct journeys happening at very different times. The first happens once, long before any artwork begins. The second happens fresh for every image. Together, they make the magic possible.

A plain-language guide to copyright, source images, and why owning a Diamojism artwork comes with complete peace of mind.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa is one of the most recognized images ever made. Rendering it as a Diamoji meant solving problems no portrait had ever asked for — and building three new capabilities to do it. This is the story of how a wave became 15,525 emoji tiles, and what it took to get there.

Every emoji in a Diamojism print was chosen by an algorithm I designed, tuned through dozens of iterations, and approved by my eye. Here's an honest look at where AI fits into that process — and where it doesn't.

"I've published a technical paper describing the architecture of the system behind every Diamojism work. This is the story of how it works — and why the engineering choices matter to the art."