Shared Sky

2025

225 photographs taken by 22 people, including:

Raina Hatcher, Katy Hatcher, Daniel Hatcher, Landon Hatcher, Ava Hatcher, Banafsheh Ghassemi, Joseph Bennett, Henry Bennett, Pam Wallis, Ali Abdelmaksoud, Michael Belluscio, David Stemmle, Jack Mirenzi, Mark Hoekzema, Mackenzie Krider, Nicole Ahad, Harley Pomper, Lucrezia Brody, Amy Abraham, Sofia Apgar, Ali Marvi, and Manasvi Chegu.

The sky is shared. No matter where you are, there is always the sky. It connects people and places everywhere—cities, suburbs, forests, and deserts all live under the same worldly sky. It is beautiful, majestic, overwhelming, ephemeral, everlasting, natural, beyond nature, and always, always there. It creates distance and collapses distance. You may be far away from me on the ground, yet still we share the sky. 

To create “Shared Sky” I asked a large group of people to share their favorite photographs of clouds or cloudy skies they had seen, with me. Clouds were chosen because they are a subject that occurs in the sky—enhancing site-specific tension. Clouds are a locational boundary… You look at a particular part of the sky, a particular view of the sky, a particular cloud. A boundaried form hangs above you. Yet still, clouds occur in endless different circumstances all over the planet. The cloudy sky is both global actor and local occurrence at the same time. 

When viewed together, this collection of photographs creates a mesh, collage, or tapestry of the sky. The sky is composed of many people’s perspectives, occurring across the globe and across time. This creates a portrait of the shared sky, a sense of wholeness and all-overness, of variance and lack of variance, which can be obscured by earthly distance and views. 

Look up.

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