“Not Here” is a series of stills collected from screen captures sourced from several unique oceanic surveillance websites. The primary concept is to re-appropriate these images into a layered and author free experience. The original intent of these websites are to inform boaters and the fishing community to the ever changing weather conditions throughout South Florida “in real-time,” however the latent effect is much more provocative. Primarily these non-threatening surveillance cameras create a unique experience resonating photography’s incapacity of documenting “reality” or “beauty.” However these automatic machine-made panoramas create an unmitigated ideal seascape without any prejudice and therefore showcase an unrestricted vantage point of nature and the atmospheric elements that no one person could have ever had the time or imagination to conceive. This series launches out of my life long fascination with the ocean. It also becomes very much stimulated by the overwhelming habit of people looking out and reminiscing on the life they left behind an ocean away as the water connecting our vision is the only real position of contact we have with other lands. The shape-shifting water responds back unapologetically to the individual standing in its shoreline’s vanishing grasp. The image is composed as a vertical triptych on many open sourced screen captures collected over a period of 5 years.