MySky

The sky is often used as an exciting background element within landscape photography. It is usually just there, the background for the subject matter that can extend from the foreground to the horizon. The photographer explores the process of foregrounding the sky, with a specific emphasis on cloud-filled sky, to create a visual liminal experience which is somewhat "removed" from the typical landscape context. The removed and in-between state addresses the notion of spirituality, the inner and outer coexistence of the natural and the spiritual. The familiarity of the clouds provides enough visual context to retain a sense of identification. In contrast, the removal, distance, vastness and lack of visual proportion could conjure a sense of awe towards the nonentity. The photographer's understanding of his immediate, personal and finally created visual experience is informed by theoretical perspectives such as liminality and the sublime. The cloudscapes are digitally stitched panoramic exposures of cloud vistas, excluding any visual reference to the Earth. They become visual representations of backlit cloud formation moments within the celestial dome.