Essays on landscape,
navigation, and control.

Offline and Out of My Depth

On rejecting GPS for paper navigation across five days in the Scottish Highlands. The essay begins with William Roy's 1747 military survey — the act of surveillance that made the Highlands legible to the Crown — and ends in a ditch with a sodden route sheet, knowing exactly which ditch it is.

The piece establishes the intellectual framework for the film practice: what GPS helps us ignore, why the faff is the point, and what it means to move through a landscape on its own terms rather than the machine's.