"In the year before I arrived in early January, I had set some restrictions for myself in developing new artworks. One of these was to avoid surveillance as a theme because I felt I had already used it more than enough in several videos and installations up to that point. Once I had lived in the space for a few days, I realized there was no way to have level eye contact with passers-by through any of the windows. The windows were mostly narrow horizontal slits, well above the height of anyone on the street. There were also windows within the building. It was a way to spy on the neighborhood – and maybe more significantly, it was now the year of Big Brother. I succumbed, turned interior windows into two-way mirrors and installed a CCTV camera over a bed."