[ On camera ]
The two square metres behind your chair
Nobody sees your car on a Tuesday morning. Everybody sees the room behind you, every meeting, every day.
11 June 2026
Your colleagues have never seen your house. They have seen the two square metres behind your chair several hundred times. It is the most viewed room you own and most people have never composed it on purpose.
The frame is roughly two metres wide and a metre and a half tall, and a webcam flattens all of it. Depth disappears. Whatever is back there reads as a single plane, which is why a bookshelf at the right distance looks considered and the same bookshelf a metre closer looks like clutter.
Three things fix most frames. Get something with structure behind you rather than a blank wall. Light it from the front and let the back sit slightly darker. Then take one thing away, and probably one more after that.
This is the whole reason the gallery wall exists as a product: lit shelving to hold a few good things, closed storage below to hide the rest.