One place. Every scale.
The journey observes Fujiyoshida, Mount Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes in Japan. It starts at 35.4875 degrees north, 138.8079 degrees east. A coordinate becomes a grid. Actual elevation contours rise together into three-dimensional terrain. Mapped waterways reveal lakes and river valleys. A real Landsat mosaic is registered to that terrain. As the camera approaches Fujiyoshida, aerial orthophotography reveals roads and building footprints. Those same footprints lift to schematic eight-metre buildings. A designed route follows actual mapped streets. An artistic daylight-to-night study changes the appearance of the same city. The camera pulls away continuously, leaving the original coordinate as one point on a cartographic Earth.
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