Domestic Bliss continued

This story is a continuation of my previous work exploring the nature of watching and the intrusion that surveillance type unauthorized observations enables and the impact it may have on us as observers/voyeurs.

With the advent of Google earth and the increase in the use of CCTV surveillance to monitor residential areas, I wanted to further explore our unknowingness with regard to how we live alongside each other and how minutely our lives can be examined by zooming in on a specific theme. This story starts with an image of an ordinary Brighton road, and then through each subsequent connected image, by zooming in on a particular section embedded in the previous image, moves to its finale, the swimming goggles placed on high five flip flops. What does it tell us about the person/people living there without ever seeing or featuring them? Each image sheds some light upon their existence and story without physically identifying them. People make assumptions about situations and each other all the time without any understanding, or a spoken word between them. Are these simply images without meaning or do they give us useful information. In using video surveillance in cities we attempt to identify unusual behaviour that may challenge our security. We connect story lines on the basis of what we see but do the images presented ever answer all our questions or do they just raise more questions? Are we justified in our invasion of privacy, moving from an accessible exterior to a private interior. The portrait image of the front-door is pivotal and symbolic as it represents the bridge between them both. Are we joyous in viewing someone else's existence without their knowledge of this invasion?