Distant Distraction, Foul Breach, Separate Sensation is a triptych video projection and augmented reality installation. Each of the three projected video panels manipulates a facial body part to refer to a perceived disembodiment that occurs in our digital interactions. To access the AR component of the piece, viewers can scan the projected images on the canvases hung in the gallery. The way that AR is used currently, mostly through the use of filters integrated into social media to morph users’ faces and beyond, amplifies these platforms’ inherent superficiality and has significant effects on individuals’ perceptions of themselves and others. Viewers can witness animated hands reaching out towards them, as if reaching out for connection. When individuals flip to the front camera, a textured mask filter covers their face, promoting ideas of disembodied spectatorship. By distorting and filtering the face in a way that is meant to draw attention to itself, the work is a departure from how AR is typically utilized. This piece deliberately inverts AR’s typical context and content, and confronts the entrenched norms of severe social separation. Through presenting the AR filters within popular social media platforms, the viewer is invited to reflect upon the problematic values that have arisen out of the use of social media, and consciously recognize what it means to ‘reach out’ for authentic connection. Social interactions that are usually only accessible through a screen are now tethered to a gallery space, bringing awareness to how everyday social interaction through AR can be reframed as relational and contributory to art. By projecting the piece directly onto canvas rather than a blank wall, the creative and relational potential of the medium, and the ways it can be exploited to prioritize this, are further emphasized. This interactive AR artwork raises awareness about the role we all have in reshaping the technology we use and reflects on the technology that shapes us.