MORI

Hypervigilance, 2026

Sculpture and video

Lately, I’ve been really fixated on how much we’re being watched without even realizing it. Once you start noticing things like Flock cameras at the entrances to our neighborhoods or local parking lots, you really can't unsee them. It feels incredibly intrusive. We’re just going about our day-to-day lives—running errands, commuting, going for a drive—and yet our movements are constantly being tracked, logged, and saved.

That uncomfortable reality is the main inspiration behind my current work. I want to capture that weird tension between everyday life and the constant layer of surveillance hovering right over our heads.

To do this, I build physical eyeball sculptures with webcams hidden directly inside the pupils. When you walk up to the piece, it is actively watching you back. I take that live feed and run it through TouchDesigner, applying real-time alterations and effects to the footage, and then broadcast it out to vintage CRT monitors.

When you look at the screens, you suddenly see yourself caught in this distorted, live-surveillance loop. By making the viewer the subject of the art, I’m trying to take these invisible networks tracking us and make them feel tangible, biological, and a little bit jarring.

Ultimately, this installation is a way to process a massive shift in how we move through the world. I want to make people pause, look up at the poles in their own towns, and really feel what it means to be constantly watched.