Cutting between expansive high definition images and abstracted close-ups, Parabola follows the ascent and decent of the natural terrain and tourist infrastructures within three places in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Within these places I felt a sense of emptiness as I moved through the controlled natural environments, a feeling of being within nature yet completely removed from it, as if there was no room for myself within the curated landscape. During the editing process I began juxtaposing all three areas. It was through a dissatisfaction and disappointment of my habitual ways of filming where I began to push the materiality of the image.