An interactive digital piece that lets you simultaneously explore any two diametrically opposing points (antipodes) on earth. The vertical triptych layout allows you to see a zoomed out mercator projection on top, an interactive, connected split view that allows panning and zooming, as well as a 3D globe view at the bottom. All 3 panels update simultaneously in response to any interaction.

Although it is common knowledge that most of our planet is covered in water, it was still surprsing to me that there are very few patches of land that also have land on the other end. The southwestern edge of South America is antipodal to several parts of China, whereas the Northern part of South America (Brazil and Colombia) overlaps with Oceania, South East Asia, and a few stray islands in the region. There was also an astonishing similarity in the textures and scale of settlement and landscape when viewing antipodes closer to the equator, despite being on opposite ends of the planet.

This project also taught me a lot about how map tiles 'fake' the large swathes of ocean when viewing a Google or Apple Maps, since they are impossible to stitch and likely not worth photographing constantly, unlike parts of the earth whos imagery is updated far more frequently (sometimes even daily), that are critical to agriculture, defense, shipping, or various other capitalistic needs.