When we think of the internet, we often imagine immediacy. An action answered by a reaction at the speed of light. This is true. But it is also true that the internet is a physical place, entangled with everything else that is material - the soil, the sky, the water and the bodies we inhabit. This project tries to comprehend that vast human invention through a single, intimate gesture: a photo of pink flowers sent to me by my grandfather, traveling from Kozhikode to Providence. I follow that message’s path — through observation, walks across the city, conversations with experts, and lots of secondary research. I try to learn where the internet actually is around me. It turns out to be everywhere. Sometimes it runs underground. Sometimes it's inside an anonymous metal box. Sometimes it stands in plain sight, disguised as a neat row of trees along a sidewalk. The website is a horizontal-scrolling field of inquiry meant to reveal some of these material realities. 

Self-Directed, funded by the RISD Graduate Grant

Year: 2025 — ongoing