The droned engagement of my PhD research acted as a way to put into perspective experiences from within, above, near, and afar. I bought the drone about a month into my fieldwork in 2020; initially with the aim to capture how the desiccated orchards that I navigated through with Google maps, did not appear from the ground as in the satellite images guiding my rides through the, at that point, largely unfamiliar landscape of southern Puglia. The landscape seemingly flourished with large green canopies in the satellite images, hinting a lively olive culture. In the meantime, the orchards where ghostlike, uprooted, cut down, or overgrown, void of human cultivation. I wished to document this local-global technical-material dynamic, wherefore I bought the drone. As I learned how to fly it, I began experiment with it, attempting at a creative way of generating perspectives and movements that my human being was physically incapable of, but which the drone yet let me explore. The below exemplifies some early explorations from Ostuni, Castri di Lecce, Casarano, and Giuggianello.