My fly is taking to the skies by Irene Cecile

About "My fly is taking to the skies"

by Irene Cecile

About the artwork

For a while, I had a fly visiting me. Or rather, I think he had moved in with me. Everywhere I was, Fly was there. On the edge of my computer when I was working, in the kitchen (but not too close to the pans) when I was cooking.

And then, one day, he was no more. He was lying on his back in my windowsill. With his paws up; dead. I drew a sun, grass, clouds, and took a picture upside down. And then Fly flew again. Fly is celestialising.

This image was created during my Photography studies at the Royal Academy of Art (The Hague), where I graduated Cum Laude in 2009.

The photo is part of the project "Handleiding tot een speelser leven," which aimed to portray playfulness, light-heartedness, acceptance and beautiful coincidence. Less perfection, striving and planning. Because that's where we all... Or let me speak for myself: because I really do need that from time to time, as a change from all the usefulness, responsibility and seriousness.

This photo (as part of the photo series) has been nominated for several awards, and has been exhibited at the Nederlands Fotomuseum (Rotterdam), the Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie, Designhuis Eindhoven, Kunstmuseum (The Hague), Above Second Gallery (Hong Kong), Little Mountain Gallery (Canada), Breda Photo International photo festival and the Shanghai Biennale 2010, among others.

This work has not been substantively modified in a photo editing programme. Some colour corrections were made, but otherwise everything you see in this photo was really there.