Aesthetically pleasing antonym for "afar"?

I'm writing an introduction for my PhD thesis. The text has to sound natural and formal, but can also have glimpses of poetry and broadness. I would like to express that a problem will be addressed from a distance and also in detail, my non-fluent English speaker mind came up with the following sentence:

"I will develop a description from afar to close by."

I couldn't find any other good "afar" antonyms that made the sentence sound natural and beautiful at the same time, at least in my opinion. Does "close by" fit in? What could be an alternative for "close by" or for the whole sentence?

Solution 1:

In general, it's a bad idea to tell the reader about what you're going to tell them. I find such introductions tedious and useless.

If it does make sense in your essay, though:

I will go over [the broad points] and then explain [] in more detail.

Frankly, "A problem will be addressed from a distance and also in detail.", which is how you described it to us, sounds more fluent than "I will develop a description from afar to close by."

It's concerning that you're saying that you're trying to avoid using "microscopic" and "macroscopic" to avoid the repetition of terms. You shouldn't be describing your own writing in your writing that often. Is it really something that your reader needs to know or would they be fine if they just read it?