Sub-Rosa Wonderland: Anti-Surveillance and the Fabrication of Anonymity

The drawing depicts a phantasmagorical future living environment threatened by increasing surveillance means, where privacy as one of the main purposes of shelter and human basic necessity is being challenged. A new form of living environment projects hope (or perhaps false hope) to such circumstance. The rich lives in maze-like villas, where barriers and blockades is treasured over expansive view; and forgot about their luxurious cars as they commute within the enclave by Faraday Gondola and Internet-Escape Paddle Boat that is untraceable; and recreation space is no longer a wide open field but encased within a cage-like wall. But once a while in the summer the trees bloom and form a dense foliage over the lake surface, covering it from drones’ intrusion and surveillance’s detection. It is the “Festival of Anonymity” where freedom to roam around is restored, temporarily.

The drawing is a narrative of dystopia cloaking itself as fairytale.