Although Meike Nixdorf’s pictures might appear to represent actual views of jagged mountains, flowing glaciers, and alpine lakes, they are in reality composite images appropriated from Google Earth. Splicing together mountain ranges like the Alps, Cascades, Himalayas, or Karakoram, Nixdorf digitally melds these remote places and climates. The jarring juxtaposition of green grass and glacial ice more accurately represents the Earth’s geologic transformation over millennia than one place at a single moment in time. She playfully expands on Google’s boastful claim that it gives you “The whole word, in your hands,” by conveying the Earth’s “sense of change and movement.” Her digital constructions assert the limitations of both photography and human lifespans to observe the Earth’s perpetual state of flux. Real yet unreal, they reinforce the mutability and fragility of the Earth’s surface, as well as our capacity to alter it.