The footage for this work is taken from a ROV underwater camera, flying along the seabed,
mapping Internet fiber cables. Images an offshore ROV pilot would see 12 hours each day
on his shift. The worker, on various trips to open water, spends months at sea, connected
to the rest of the world by the same cables that the ROV's camera is tracking.
Boredom and loneliness comforted by the immediacy and instant gratification of the net:
Online shopping on open water. A virtual flow of money, earned and spent at the same
time: Adidas Originals Gazelles red, Bosch Home Professional hover, 5m per 3m Persian rug,
a knitted Fred Perry jumper, Philips flatscreen TV ambilight.

The work is a collaboration with the ROV pilot Archie Gunning and a selection of his shopped items.







Exhibition view: 'Of the Sea' The Historic Chatham Dockyard, 2016