Close Enough is a performative installation about the intimacy of drone surveillance, built around the central contradiction of drone warfare: the operator is close enough to see a target’s face, to watch them eat breakfast and play with their children, to learn their routines and relationships and small daily habits, but far enough away to kill without physical consequence. Operators have described this in testimony as a form of stalking, weeks spent coming to know someone intimately before ending their life.

Drawing on pattern-of-life analysis, The Drone Papers, and the Living Under Drones report, the work turns its attention to the watching itself: the sustained, one-sided accumulation of knowledge about a life, gathered from a distance and without consent, spreading outward from one person to everyone they know. Using autonomous drones, computer vision, and the visual language of military intelligence, Close Enough recreates that logic and places an audience inside it. Visitors find themselves on both sides of the apparatus at once, watching the surveillance unfold and gradually recognising themselves within it, held in the uneasy position of having been known by something long before they noticed it looking.

Close Enough will be presented at GOGBOT Festival in Enschede in September 2026.

In development. Early captures from the drone feed below; full documentation to follow.