We all watch the world burn sometime in our lifetime, I’ve experienced it a few times and a few different ways. I can’t help but to lose myself in the times drowning in the daily clickbaity news articles and endless scrolls of videos and shouting people sharing similarities yet opposed, shouting-in the end to figure out who is more oppressed. These debates are all valid and all need to be taken with a critical eye and mind but I always come back to the question.

How can I be everywhere?

After experiencing occupational burnout from a high leadership position, lofty title and pay. I started to examine my own, albeit unhealthy relationship with my phone. Logging hours on hours and evern more on my computer staring into the glowing abyss. Screenshotting, saving images, reference points and everything to shape narratives of understanding but yet the world moves on. Lockdown after lockdown through the dark German winter lonely-sequestered and slave to capitalism. These tools are the tools that many of the world’s population use to a lot of the same things I do-stay informed, reference and many others things. These things are portals into regions and foreign realms all accessible through a domain. Tabs of websites that span the global over and over.

Not being able to travel even leave my flat outside a 5km range I explored these tools as a medium to exam us our behaviors and what’s happening in the world-the climate so to speak. YouTube live feeds, to subreddits (r/whereintheworld) livefeeds, hack security cameras with livefeeds. The moiré effect in many ways reminds me of interference and buzz of these everyday objects and duplicitous nature of them. Macrophotography mixed with digital cameras brings these surfaces to life in the very way I felt comfort and the ability to escape from the confines of 5km.