SHADINGS OF MEMORY

Shadings of Memory is a video series exploring the fragile nature of memory through digital reconstructions of landscapes. Using 3D scans collected during his travels, Milkorva assembles fragments of natural and human-altered environments, transforming them into hybrid spaces that drift between recollection and fiction.

Each fragment begins with a real place, digitally preserved and then gradually altered. Through a consistent camera movement and subtle visual deformations, these landscapes shift and blur, echoing how memories evolve: imperfect, unstable, reshaped by time and emotion.

At its core, the project is a reflection on memory as a living, fluid process. The digital medium becomes an active force, not a neutral recorder, much like the mind reshapes the past through feeling and imagination. Time is central: each scan captures a moment while also revealing its impermanence. Inspired by Impressionist aesthetics (particularly Claude Monet), the work favors atmosphere and sensation over strict realism.

As the images drift away from captured reality and immerse themselves in inner fiction, Shadings of Memory raises questions about what we see, what we hold onto, what we forget, and how the act of remembering, through distortion and reconstruction, reshapes what once was. Between perception and invention, personal and collective memory, the series invites us to contemplate what remains and what fades.