Reconstructed Memory

Transient Remembrance of Spaces

Summer 2025

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They say that you remember by recalling your embodied senses and cognition from which an impression of the moment is formed. In today's world where snapping a photograph or filming a video is as effortless as picking up your phone and pressing a button, without even the need to consider lighting, composition or framing, how well do we truly to remember?

Even if we do manage to reconstruct our memory through a photograph or video, the moment is frozen in time, or a snippet of time, without any expression of space and emotion.

This project consists of a series of 3D gaussian splats of spaces I scanned on a trip to Europe. The scans were processed as two layers — gaussian splats and point clouds — to visualise the fragment of time captured as a space. Yet memory is transient and hazy in reconstruction, distorting and displacing the captured space as we travel through it.

Processed scan in Jawset Postshot

Processed scan in Scaniverse (iPhone)

Gaussian Splatting

The scans were created in Jawset Postshot with an iPhone 15 Pro 4K video, or with Scaniverse on iPhone.

Processed scan in Jawset Postshot

Processed scan in Scaniverse (iPhone)

Gaussian Splatting

The scans were created in Jawset Postshot with an iPhone 15 Pro 4K video, or with Scaniverse on iPhone.

Displacement of the point cloud using an effector sphere

Distorted Memories

Memories are often recalled in hazy, discombobulated fragments. This was expressed in the space as displacement of the splats and points.

Displacement of the point cloud using an effector sphere

Distorted Memories

Memories are often recalled in hazy, discombobulated fragments. This was expressed in the space as displacement of the splats and points.

Locations of the scans:

Copenhagen - Central Station, F*ck Q-park

Rotterdam - StayOkay Hostel

Barcelona - Basílica de la Sagrada Família

Lisbon - Alfama