Look up is an interactive video installation that explores video as a portal for revisiting the homes I’ve lived in and the digital presence of those places. The work consists of generative content sourced from Google Maps Street View, projected onto an architectural ceiling. A live camera detects viewers’ faces and applies a real-time blur effect that echoes the anonymized figures found in Google imagery.

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While developing the piece, I discovered an image of my late grandmother captured in a 2010 Street View. It was a fleeting, ecstatic moment where her presence felt vividly alive within the frozen frame of public data. That unexpected encounter became a quiet center of the work, revealing how digital archives can hold traces of life, memory, and loss.

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As viewers look upward, they see their screen-based selves within the video also gazing up, daydreaming, longing, searching. This gesture evokes a biological instinct: the way we look up at the moon, toward light, at places we long to enter, or at people we miss.