This paper is an exploration of surveillance through the paradigm of my artistic research and practice. Referencing and adopting facets of Debord’s definition of the spectacle I study imagery made with CCTV cameras. These observations, made from afar, watch the seemingly inconsequential, the everyday and moments of transient beauty. The resulting body of images forms an artistic dialogue between myself, CCTV cameras and my digital wanderlust. Although made as aesthetic artefacts the trajectory of this work challenges critical geography and surveillance capitalism, offering new values and interpretations through a form of optical poetry.