Having worked in the field of Augmented Reality for a few years, I think AR has the power to communicate facts better by putting them in context with a users surroundings and the real world. It can also give new perspectives, which I wanted to use here by displaying absolut columns representing the number of people infected and killed during this pandemic from Earth orbit.
I think art can be a powerful tool to help people cope with situations like the one we are facing at the moment. At the same time, I wanted to create a way to visualize the reports we hear daily through the news. Deaths due to COVID-19 have reached such high numbers that, if stacked on top of each other, would reach into space. A devastating fact that puts into perspective the cutbacks we currently have to live with.
NASA Worldview Earth satellite images from March 1st until May 29th
WHO COVID-19 public health data, source: https://covid19.who.int/4808e3a2-2011-4dcc-b5d5-cb31696553e6