Look up is a video installation that explores video as a portal for revisiting the homes I’ve lived in and the digital presence of those places. These include my childhood home, the first place I moved out to in college, my grandparents’ house, and my first home in Los Angeles.

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The work consists of a ceiling video generated through the Google Maps API, alongside a live camera that detects and blurs viewers’ faces, echoing the anonymized figures in Google Street View.

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As viewers look upward, they see their own screen-based reflections doing the same. The way we look up at the moon, toward light, at places we long to enter, or at people we miss. It mirrors how I “look up” homes that no longer exist in my physical world but continue to live on in Google Maps, a public archive where personal memory and public data converge. It is a strategic simulation of reality composed of rendered images shaped by infrastructure, data, and perspective.