Near the city of Tucson, Arizona, a metal pole with a special camera on top has been installed. It is designed to capture the changes in the local landscape over thousands of years. This is the creative project of experimental philosopher Jonathan Keats, who expects to install similar cameras in China, the Austrian Alps, U.S. nature reserves and other places.
Keats admits that his project has no artistic, commercial, scientific or any meaning at all. Moreover, with a 100% probability it will not be completed, because no one is going to keep the installation safe for the whole 1000 years. If not natural disasters, human activity will surely destroy the pole and the camera.
What matters here is the idea itself, and it is not impossible that it will be picked up and realized in one form or another. The camera on the pole is not digital, it is a camera obscura modeled after the devices of ancient Rome. A tiny hole is made in the 24-karat gold plate, which is weather-resistant. Light passing through it flips and falls on a multilayer photosensitive coating, creating an image.
