ou know a work by Martine Syms as soon as you see it. Whether you step into one of her multimedia installations or watch one of her video works from your laptop, the California born-and-based artist has the ability to transport you to her world, which somehow exists simultaneously in the here and now, and in the future. It’s not a parallel universe that Syms constructs, but the one that exists around us, which most of us can’t grasp because we aren’t wired to look at – to truly observe – the world with such an unflinching (and forgiving, humorous) gaze. We asked the artist to share an original work that spoke to the way in which sharing our hyper-local
