Signal before the storm

Signal before the storm. 2020.

A thin metal antenna reaches up into a sky that is already slipping from soft pink into grey, trying to hold a signal while the weather rolls in. The dark cloud carries most of the weight, both visually and emotionally, drifting low and heavy across all that empty colour, while the structure below looks fragile and makeshift by comparison. It is a small suburban moment, but it hints at bigger themes, the way our attempts to connect feel temporary beside the slow, indifferent movement of the sky, and how a single shape at the edge of a frame can stand in for a whole street of quiet backyards waiting for rain.

70 mm • f/5.6 • 1/5 sec, ISO 400