"There's something about taking to wing and leaving the normal plane you travel on that allows you to create a whole new perspective and relationship with the world around you. As you rise into the sky, physical structures and hidden intricacies begin to reveal themselves in greater complexity and depth than is accessible from land. The true immensity of a landscape, interconnectivity of nature and impact of man ca be unveiled in a way that’s simply not possible from the same linear plane. Perhaps even an echo of the dreamtime stories of the earth’s creation can be brought to light in this way.
By taking the horizon away and any sense of scale, and thus isolating the subject contextually, the viewer is invited to move away from their more literal mind into more fluid and figurative paths of interpretation – and potentially into a broader realm of emotion, symbolism and metaphor. Such is the magic, power and invitation of abstraction.