I'm looking at the stark contrast between the pervasive societal fear of companies accessing our encrypted information online and the readiness of individuals to voluntarily set their accounts to public and share their real-time locations and personal details with strangers on social media platforms like Instagram.  For this, as a woman, I am adopting a methodology of the visual language of a perpetrator/stalker to expose how the material people happily put out on social media could be used in a malicious way.

The project highlights how most people in Western society have both a physical and digital presence (multiples) which are both repetitively and serially shared with strangers. The use of these aspects in the project provokes viewers to realize that many of us have likely engaged in similar behaviours, emphasising the uncertainty of who might have been observing our actions and the potential negative consequences, such as stalking. Viewing stalking through different lenses shows a variety of perspectives. The lenses I will use are: observing through Instagram, observing by following in real life and myself as the subject to observation. This work focuses on repetition, showing that anyone who voluntarily shares their real-time location online could be pursued at any time. This repetition underscores the pervasive and recurrent nature of the observed behaviour of people online across many different contexts.