Longing for views of the unfamiliar drives tourism. Desire to preserve uninhabited lands protects some spaces from development. The search for fuel and economic development transforms others. Pollution threatens many inhabitants, large and small. Historical disputes over land claims abound. Local and global interests sometime compete and sometimes join each other to re-envision a landscape. Ultimately we all share a single landscape.

Created specifically for an exhibition that examines landscape, I was interested in the odd perspective on landscape suggested by the webcam. I made POV as a moving, dispersed, landscape ‘painting’ that was projected on the gallery wall. Still frame grabs, recorded from live webcams at regular intervals, capture patterns of change and movement from 15 locations around the world, reflecting shifts in weather, traffic, and daylight. The framing of many of these cameras resembles traditional landscape paintings. Obviously there are no camera views of much of the globe. POV randomly picks a view to replay and one of 15 random words to reframe the selected view. The words included: settle, covet, divide, pollute, populate, develop, revere, tour, restore, and more.