Holding pattern

Holding pattern. 2021.

The scene is really just a wall of boxes, but in the late light it turns into a painting. Branded colours stack themselves into bands, soft clouds drifting above this hard grid of global trade. The fence and the white road arrow pull you back to ground level, reminding you that you are still standing on an ordinary bitumen verge on the edge of Melbourne. I was interested in that tension between distance and proximity, the romance of ships and far–off ports pressed up against the quiet, slightly tired reality of the working dock.

24 mm • f/5.6 • 1/1000 sec • ISO 64