By nature I cannot stay enclosed within four walls for too long, and I thrive in open space. In an ideal world, I would live in a vast and sparse environment, free of clutter. Working with a modified professional digital camera sensitive to infrared wavelength, Dusk Dialogue at 40.582N, 73.818W explores the division between an expansive ocean and a boundless sky, well beyond the human visible spectrum. The images were captured over several months, consistently shot from the same location at dusk.

Dusk Dialogue at 40.582N, 73.818W

A shelter from the sun on the Rockaway Beach, New York, takes on an inspiring geometric, minimalist shape, accentuated by airplanes taking off from or approaching nearby JFK airport. The parallel beams converge and diverge, intuiting departures and arrivals.

The planes flying over the Rockaways have always intrigued me, conveying a sense of nostalgia, distant or recent memories, a question mark. I pursue a minimalist geometric approach capturing the planes coupled with the beach sun shading beams. For the colors of the sky, the airplane and the beams, I have chosen colors from my childhood years when my parents traveled frequently. The colors are those of my toys which I still vividly recall.

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