If they ask you, tell them we were flying / Flights is a series of photographic collages made from original urban landscape photographs that are printed, cut, and hand-assembled without digital intervention. The photographs used in the collage series were made in the Athens neighborhood of Dourgouti, where a settlement was created to accommodate Greek refugees arriving in Athens from Asia Minor in the 1920s. The project is a meditation on how imaginative and political possibilities can take form within marginalized urban spaces – and how these landscapes can be sites of flight and freedom-making. The photocollages develop a new visual vocabulary for considering liberation practices – inviting reflection on how we might expand our sense of what is possible, grounding ideas of freedom, joy, and flight in how we choose to live and create.

Building on this inquiry, Flights engages the idea of radical utopias by using an aesthetic vocabulary to imagine an alternative vision of living and making. The recurring presence of flocks of city birds introduces a sense of shared movement and quiet escape that unfold within the urban landscape. These gestures of flight open a space for reflection of how possibility is formed under everyday conditions. The assembled picture plane is a rehearsal for a self-created world formed by the collective imagination of shared sensibilities toward living otherwise.