Today's global culture has accelerated the creation of many diasporas. People move, travel, flee, and are displaced for personal, economic, environmental, and political reasons. Many long for home, family, culture, and moments of respite in a busy world. Search explores such movements using video tracking technology.
When no one is near, a large image of a hand and globe sits frozen. When someone wanders into its sight, the projection comes to life and starts the childhood game of spinning a globe and stopping it. People's movements also leave a trail of falling words that build up and fade away over time. There are two categories of words. One set relates to wandering, including active words like drift, roam, flee, migrate, seek, etc. The other set are what one might desire when they stop moving, including words like home, refuge, respite, family, shelter, etc. These words mix and merge on screen as traces of bodies in motion. Movement also elicits sound, including a fade in of melancholy notes when someone stands still for a while.