Sailing space

During late 2017 I was going through shit, my parents were fighting everyday and I had to live with them and run the house with my sister, Uni was NOT going well, my at-the-time Girlfriend just broke up with me after a year long intoxification of our relationship and wildfires destroyed one of my favourite places in my area and nearly reached my house. All of this was easily the lowest point of my life until then. I did a lot of experimenting with photos back then and also documented what was happening with the wildfires (the images though are tough to look at so I think they will never see the light of the day) but never posted anything. One day in 2019 I took interest in Composite photography using Photoshop, After a lot of tries that produced bad results, I decided to start from something that got me feeling and go with the flow so i put some music and started searching in my archive. I found my star trail, shot while talking with Alessandro (you’ve seen plenty of him in pictures up until now) which was the only friend I did not alienated myself from during the process of going toxic with my at the time GF, then i browsed around and found the folder of the pictures taken during the wildfires. To this day, going through those photos i can still remember the smell of the smoke, the fear of loosing everything and the sadness i felt about the situation, so I decided to use these photos because they were dragging me out of my apathy. So i started using the clouds as a sea, under a fast-moving ske and surrounded by mountains. I felt i was missing something but then, I found myself listening to “ci sono anch’io” by max pezzali (italian version of “I’m Still Here”), I got super inspired by “The treasure planet” disney’s film and, since in that film they fly around in old wind powered ships, I decided to use the same concept, and I ended up with a picture of a model galeon as something oing out of the clouds and towards the sky