This work engages in dialogue with Uri Gershuni’s piece Apollo and the Chimney Sweep, which tours Talbot’s village in England exclusively in a virtual manner, through navigation on Google Street View.

In this work, I used a photographic technique that allows me to remain within my own four walls, in an air-conditioned living room, while touring and wandering through roads, villages, settlements, and olive groves in Judea and Samaria.

Using Google Street View, I selected frames of ancient landscapes and open spaces, small houses surrounded by terraces and olive groves. (Arab villages are not documented in Google Street View and can only be seen via aerial photographs.) I wrapped the images in a frame I created using artificial intelligence, depicting colorful olive trees that evoke the pastoral appearance of old postcards.

These are photographs taken in politically charged locations, amid a persistent struggle over every piece of land and every olive tree.

Google Street View is updated to 2012—

naturally, things look different today and call for an update and comparative follow-up.