About the Art

The stills used on this site are drawn from the video 349 Things I Don't Need to Worry About Right Now, a collaboration between artist Marcel Marcel and poet Elizabeth Marie Young. This piece takes text from one of Young’s poems as the starting point for a video consisting of screen recordings of online surveillance live cams with an attending soundscape. The collaboration reflects on the information overload that results from our contemporary digital and media landscapes. The video’s text is drawn from a multi-part poem titled 349 Things I Don’t Need to Worry About Right Now. The poem is an absurdist simulation of the ruminating states associated with anxiety, mania, and the brute difficulty of living in a cruel, chaotic, sorrowfully ailing world.


The video premiered at The International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, in 2025.