Becoming Sky is a scattered constellation of screens—different sizes, different shapes, each displaying a different version of blue sky. Some screens show perfect azure, others reveal gray fractures. The sky has fallen, or perhaps bled, into digital simulation.

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The installation emerged from observing how nature disappears under capitalism's machinery while we increasingly encounter it through screens rather than overhead. The perfect sky can now be manufactured, purchased, optimized. Meanwhile, the real sky above grows harder to recognize.

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Screens cluster and scatter across the space like fragments of something once whole. Some display tangible simulations, others attempt the real—but in this landscape of digital mediation, what distinction remains? We've learned to prefer the perfected version, the one that never disappoints with clouds or smog or the wrong shade of blue.

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Becoming Sky asks: have we lost the ability to see what's real versus what's arbitrary? When nature becomes product, and product becomes more appealing than nature, what happens to our capacity for authentic encounter?

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The work began as personal reflection during the Month of Art Practice's theme of BLUE, but expanded into a meditation on material loss—not just of nature, but of our ability to be present with what actually exists above us.