Bastard Memory
Written on August 1st , 2025 by Dialekti Valsamou-Stanislawski
3D animation, video, stills
Bastard Memory (Μνήμη Μπάσταρδη) is an unfinished 3D landscape that explores the tension between the familiar and the uncanny. Conceived as a stitched, fragmented environment, it brings together personal objects, hybrid creatures, and distorted symbols, forming a terrain that is at once intimate and estranged.
The work stems from my ongoing interest in memory as soft dissonance—something sweet yet irrational, comforting yet unsettling. Much like the way recollection twists and reshapes lived experience, the composition draws from real objects and lived impressions, only to fragment, reassemble, and hybridize them into new forms. This “bastard” landscape exists between the personal and the imagined, between material traces and digital invention.
Water serves as the central connective element: a fluid thread of safety, love, and childhood memory, but also a space of dissolution where language and reason lose their hold. Within this watery terrain, animals and animated symbols appear as recurring presences. They function as a kind of experiential vocabulary—alive, emotional, difficult to translate into words, yet instantly recognizable on a visceral level.
The machine is present not as a character but as a form of interference, shaping textures, rhythms, and the ways fragments recombine. Algorithmically generated material intersects with hand-crafted models and found elements, creating surfaces that shimmer between the natural and the artificial, the organic and the computational.
Aesthetic choices are guided by this hybridity: psychedelic textures, shifting scales, translucent boundaries, and immersive lighting construct a space where the viewer is invited to wander. Entering the work feels like stepping into an inner room—at once personal and open-ended, stitched from memories, symbols, and affective resonances.
Unfinished and evolving, Bastard Memory (Μνήμη Μπάσταρδη) remains deliberately open to mutation. It may resurface as an animated environment, a video installation, or a fragmentary series. For now, it exists as an ongoing exploration of how memory, hybridity, and emotional landscapes can be rendered through digital space.
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