Panoptic Kite

This research project was around the theme of surveillance, investigating the subject from a dialectal viewpoint of power and panoptic prison structures. The outcome was a kite, which when in the sky resembles a floating, omnipotent eye symbolic of the power surveillance has over the public. Up close the kite has names of world leaders with coinciding quotes of things they have said around the laws concerning surveillance. The agenda of the kite was to inform the reader of the different viewpoints each nation had, some being more dystopic than others. Using the kite as a tool to both conceptually represent power as well being a practical tool, which invites the reader to go back to nature and into parks and thus away from both their phone and CCTV cameras, symbolising the attainment of freedom. (Shot using a surveillance camera)