HOLDING UP THE SKY
Learning to hold what cannot be held
Raw silk paper, cyanotype, 12x17 cm each, 2024
Holding Up the Sky is composed of twenty-eight raw silk paper structures resembling kites, printed with cyanotype skies. Each piece captures a fragment of the atmosphere —a moment of light, a breath of blue— arranged in a pattern that evokes both connection and fragility.
The work reflects on our relationship with the sky as something we try to hold, protect, and possess, even though it was never ours to keep.
The cyanotypes, created through sunlight, are physical imprints of the sky itself —a collaboration with light and time.
Through repetition and suspension, the installation becomes a fragile architecture of air: a reminder that the sky we see is not only a space above us but also the thin membrane that sustains all life.
It invites us to look up again —to remember that holding up the sky is not about control, but about care.
