looking for the sunrise

2021, video with no sound, 00:04:46. View the full video above.

Following the red cursor in first-person perspective, the viewer moves through an unfinished virtual landscape and its sped-up day- and night cycle, trying to catch the moment of the sun rising at the horizon. A recurring visual glitch, a flicker across the screen, overlays the recording and repeatedly disrupts the search as a type of technological blinking. The work approaches longings for the natural in simulation while working with problems of locating ‘self’ and environment as well as the limits of self-observation.