Building R (deathtrap namechange) (2022, #17 Shadow Works), online intervention and still installation projection, dimensions variable.
Building R (death trap name change), is a text intervention of a satellite image of Building 9, the facility where Glyphosate is manufactured by Bayer (who bought out Monsanto, who sold to avoid class action law suits). Lat. 38°40'12.94"N Long. 90°23'45.07"W Shadowworks(2025, fr.2011), continues as a series of Google Earth interventions, that the artist considers as an eposodic Documentary. Each work draws attention to major players of Late Capitalism that egregiously damage planet earth. Bowie turns these sites into documenataries by 'fixing' the images with shadows to reflect on the undisclosed that lay below the veneer of these corporations and systems, and then anonymously uploads them to join what are typically visitor or resident photos nearby the sites in question.
Shadowworks (2011 through 2025), continues as a series of Google Earth interventions, that the artist considers as an eposodic documentary. Each work draws attention to major events resulting from hegemony, Late Capitalism and normalized blind investment, that typically fall under the radar of popular awareness. The locations are sites of occupied, unceded territories, of environmental destruction, and of genocide. Bowie turns these sites into documenataries by 'fixing' the screen grabbed images with shadows or text, or by serializing them to reflect on the undisclosed that lay below the veneer of hegemonic systems. She then anonymously uploads them to join what are typically visitor or resident photos nearby the sites in question to be stumbled upon by users browsing photographs of a particular site on Google Earth. Shadowworks internet-based public interventions was started in 2011 with Great things never invented (NYSE, #1 Shadow Works)(See Below)
They are meant to be stumbled by the public as they peruse uploaded tourist photos, of areas or landmarks, most often the online territories of curious travellers or direction seakers.
These works also recontextualized as installations for gallery or for situ public artworks to extend their reach.
They remind the would be traveler or google-earth-tourist that their virtual or actual desitnation(s) are colonized sites, decimated environs, corporate headquarters, or hegemonic crimes.


The Neighbourhood (13º27'50.92"N 34º24'53.69"E elev 0m, eye alt 2.08km) (2025,# 38,#39,#40 Shadow works)
The Neighbourhood (13º27'50.92"N...) (2025) are 3 still images of the same neighbourood. For the installation (dimensions variable), each image cast onto exterior sides of a cube, that are meant to be viewed separately as the viewer moves around the cube. The final wall of the cube has a cut-out the same size as the images that reveals the inner space of the cube painted matt black, so it serves as a void. Each of the three images show the same area in Gaza, 2017, 2022 and November 2024.



Maranhāo, Brazil (2025, # 30 Shadow works)
Maranhāo, Brazil (still installation projection, dimensions variable), is a historical collage intervention of two satellite images, one from 1985 and from 2025 showing both legal and illegal deforestation of the Brazilian rainforest.



Call 1985/2022, Tk'emlúpsemc te Secwepemc Unceded Territory (2022 # 19 Shadow works)
Call 1985/2022, Tk'emlúpsemc te Secwepemc Unceded Territory, is part of installation on 5.972×10^24 kg (The Situation Room installation)
As an installation, Call 1985/2022,is to be set facing a projection of identical proportions of Response 2003/2023(2022).

Call 1985/2022 is constructed from historical screen grabs from Google Earth Pro.


Information on the work and location on the stolen, unceeded territory of the Secwepemc Nation.

The Artists years long response at Orbitas






Great things never invented (NYSE, #1 Shadow Works)(2011)

Great things never invented (NYSE, #1 Shadow Works) was the first of an ongoing series of related online public works called Shadow Works that Fiona begun in September of 2011.



Mercury Rising (#7 Shadow works)(2014)





Camouflage 1 (#10 Shadow works)(2014)

These works were created in and uploaded from Samara, Costa Rica, Sitges, Calalonia Spain, Toronto or K'emk'emeláy (colonially known as Vancouver BC.),
with gratitude and acknowledgement of our host's nationhood; of their unceded, ancestral and current territories:
the Musqueam, Squamish, and Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.