Climbing (4502-4000) is a multi-channel video installation that uses images appropriated from online real estate listings to create a ‘ladder’ of suburban homes scaled by a computer cursor. The work collapses the perspectives of each found image, compositing the houses into a never-ending surface of suburbia. This flattening allows for the unfettered scrolling of the grasping skeuomorphic ‘hand’ cursor and evokes the experience of online shopping. The homes are depicted in geographical order, shifting from the artist’s childhood suburban postcode to the central CBD of Brisbane; the cursor navigating not just the potential for home ownership, but the class aspiration that these locales and facades can signify. However as a seamless loop, the work also expresses a cynicism toward the idea of real estate as a mechanism of social mobility. The dizzying experience of the horizonless pre- and post-renovation facades sliding across the screens reflects on the divergent experiences of home ownership experienced by different generations of Australian. The work functions as an absurd and exhausting depiction of engaging in the property market, in particular as a function of class. More broadly, it operates as an apt expression of one generation’s experience of late-capitalism, as well as a prompt for audiences to consider their own position and participation with that same system.