What is a plane with nowhere to fly?

Drawing the world around my aircraft designs is fundamental in my creative process. An extension of their landscape, the machines both feed and react to a fictional world I’ve created alongside them; every decision, large or small, plays a part in a broader narrative picture.

For a period in 2019-20, I combined this world with an interest in digital art to produce a series of concept pieces. Setting up scenes in Blender, then layering painting marks via tablet, the goal was to shed light on the emotional and spiritual currents which breathe life into my work beyond engineering alone.

The name of this worldbuilding project is Contrails.

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