Cloudlands #2

Ruth Skilbeck Cloudlands #2 2012

As computing takes us into the skies I am fascinated by the contrasts between nature and manufacture captured in pixels by a digital camera, in the actual experience of flight in air travel and in the reflexive play on words that cloud ware computing wraps us in, what are these castles in the sky our thoughts and words are conjuring through infinite strings of binary symbols in the digital unconscious? And where am 'I',  where are 'we' passenger-pilots in this process of flight? When I took this photo, on May 14 2012, I was on my way back from the MIRCI conference in Toronto flying at 32,000 feet over the aptly named Pacific en route to Sydney.  Ruth Skilbeck