Niklāvs Kadiķis
Cosmic Trash

Digital print on aluminum composite, 65x52 cm
Quilted polyester padding


When did the sky stop seeming close and became distant? For three years I lived in a room without sunlight. To see the sky, I had to press myself against the window and look up. When I think about the future, I don't imagine inventions or other benefits, but rather what could be taken away.

The sky feels watched, filled with drones and rockets marking lines of control. The horizon is no longer open, it has become blurred. I believe that the sky remembers how we once named the shapes of the clouds. The sky is already being taken from us, but it has not yet disappeared. Looking is how we try to take it back.