Ice and flight

Ice and flight. 2021.

A stained pair of ice chests sit pressed against a huge concrete wall, the turquoise word “ice” the only clean accent in a field of grey. The scene feels almost abandoned, refrigeration units going slowly green while the ground darkens with damp. Three birds cut across the upper part of the frame, small and almost throwaway, yet they are the only genuinely living thing here, tiny punctuation marks above the blocky word that promises cold. The photograph holds that tension between stored chill and brief movement, a little street corner that could be utterly still if you had not arrived at the exact second something feathered decided to cross the wall.

4.2 mm • f/1.6 • 1/730 sec, ISO 32