Memory Reconstruction in Glass
Video work, as part of The Pit (2026, WIP)
This video work is an integral part of The Pit, extending across both the film and the video installation.
Its visual language is inspired by archival footage documenting the meticulous craft of building miniature models inside bottles and lightbulbs- a practice of patience, precision, and confined construction.
Within the glass vessels, fragments of architecture and domestic space are repeatedly arranged and displaced: a stairway, a shutter, a fence, a wall, a pit, traces of laundry. These elements do not settle into a stable reconstruction. They remain mobile, provisional, and subject to constant repositioning.
The work follows the attempt to organize the remnants of a place that no longer fully exists. Through the act of placing, swapping, and manipulating fragments inside glass, memory appears as something both material and unstable, held for a moment, but never secured.
Process note
These images emerge from a hybrid process: handmade miniature models are photographed, reworked, and extended through AI-assisted image generation. Rather than replacing material work, the AI is used as a tool for testing scale, atmosphere, and impossible spatial arrangements — a way of staging fragments that cannot yet fully exist physically.