Link machines were disguised to the public as democratizing internet and maps services, when in reality they are data mining, vessels for advertising armed with discrete tiny cameras at the top, towering over everyone who walks by. It encapsulates everything I despise about surveillance and using them as a portal to play short form content and moving advertisements is especially insidious. We are already surrounded by portals to the infinite scroll, why should we be subjected to them in our everyday lives, walking the blocks in our neighborhoods that we pay taxes to maintain? I get so upset at the thought of them that sometimes, I shield my face or purposefully redirect my gaze. The process of looking back at it with the camera felt oddly intimate and as if I was putting myself in harm's way. But it also felt freeing to stare back at it, shooting it the same way it shoots me.