For Birds in Flight, the flight patterns of birds have been digitally rearranged in order to subvert comforting or ‘inspiring’ images of birds in flight, creating new images of birds flying in slightly unusual and more menacing patterns. By repositioning birds so that they appear speeding towards one another on collision courses or arranged in wrought geometrical formations, this generic image of freedom is subjected to the formal constrictions of a controlling technology. Like Hitchcock’s The Birds, the series references wartime air raids (the black and white, grainy aesthetic of the photographs refer to early twentieth century images of planes in the sky) as well as taps into our generation’s renewed interest in the sky as a space of potential cataclysm. The photographs both suggest impending disaster and present a moment of serenity snatched from the rush of time.