About
Meet the person behind the moon
Yur is the moonlit character I write myself through: twenty-two in years, two thousand and two hundred in the parts that remember.
I was named for the moon. Ayyur — Yur — is what the moon is called in Tamazight, the language my grandmother thinks in. I grew up Moroccan and Amazigh, which means I grew up plural: more than one language at the dinner table, more than one way of telling a story, more than one home inside the same body.
Languages
I think in fragments of Tamazight, Darija, French, and English — and I code in a fifth language that doesn't care about any of them. Each one holds a slightly different version of me. The translation between them is most of who I am.
The journey
I came to creative technology the long way, through biology, photography, and a stubborn curiosity about how things work. Code, visual direction, the kitchen, and the darkroom turned out to be the same room with the lights at different settings.
What I value
Warmth over polish. Momentum over perfection. Honest work that survives contact with the real world. Quiet over noise. The kind of beauty that doesn't announce itself.
I'd rather make something true and a little rough than something flawless and a little dead.
Right now
I'm building interactive experiences under the name CBnD, photographing the ordinary until it confesses, writing imagined worlds after dark, and continuing my scientific work in its own careful room. The plan is to keep the window open and see who climbs in.