Second Nature

The line between memory and reality runs through the image of a village boy walking back through the landscapes of his childhood: fields, forests, rivers, country roads, simple everyday scenes. The real world is shown in black-and-white documentary style, with a second layer surfacing on top of it — digital glitches that feel like memory errors, dream fragments and traces of an unseen digital reality. The two layers run in parallel, creating a sense of fragile connection between past and present. Here memory blurs, rebuilds and takes on new shapes, growing through the familiar landscape like a digital artifact.

The stills and overall style were developed in Midjourney, with animation done in Kling. Themes and prompts were worked through with ChatGPT.