Vertigo was the project I started just before leaving the UAE in 2016 and as such is an idea that was never fully developed. It was initially inspired by videos of Russian adrenaline junkies climbing on the top of tall buildings, but also the works of the American artist Matthew Porter, and by the general feeling that capitalist economics are setting us on an inevitable path of self-destruction, taking most of our planet’s biodiversity with us.

Vertigo isn’t the fear of falling, that is basophobia or just FOF, but rather the sensation that you, or the environment around you, is moving or spinning, often inducing feelings of, or actual, sickness and falling.

The first two, jumping man and jumping car, were the primary works in my solo exhibition The Anthropocene at GPP gallery, Al Serkal Avenue, Dubai, in 2016.