Heteroscopies / Cartographies of Self-Obscuring Landscapes

Mapping is historically associated with removing ambiguity – a process designed to make the unknown clear, measured, and legible. Yet in an age of access to information and global visibility, we in fact find instances of blurring that tend in the opposite direction: not revealing the territory but obscuring it. This project focuses on blurring in the Israeli space as seen on Google Earth – in nature areas and the Israel-Gaze border. Through simultaneous theoretical and artistic investigation, blurring is examined as a habitual practice – not the result of a lack of knowledge, but rather a tool of control that undermines the original cartographic logic.