The sky provides a backdrop to our stories, our memories and inner states. A powerful metaphor and symbol, we project our emotional states on it; conversely, it also defines our inner state.

Using photos from my personal archive, I focus on this alternating perspective the sky-as-metaphor provides. Through a small intervention in the compositions, I attempt to erase the context. Stripped from its context, what does the sky, which was originally charged with emotion for me, even mean? Is it possible for me see these images in another context, for I still have the memory of it? As for the viewer, as an outsider, the implied context in frame might mean something entirely different. Now that the context is no longer there, the image of the sky becomes a canvas to project on.

print on frontlit banner, 841 x 1189 cm 

installation at Endorphina Backkunst for 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival 2026