A quite sky

Small distance. 2022.

Most of the scene is given over to sky, with the plane reduced to a small moving mark against a broad grey field. The textured cloud at the bottom reads almost like surf or distant hills, a low band of weight beneath a wide empty space. Placing the aircraft high and off centre leans into scale and solitude, so the plane feels both fragile and determined as it cuts through the weather. It becomes less about aviation and more about the feeling of being in transit, suspended between places, a quiet reminder of how small we are inside the larger weather of the world.

50 mm • f/16 • 1/320 sec, ISO 180