A study of abandoned aircraft transformed by time, where weathered shells, exposed machinery, and grounded forms become monuments to ambition, flight, and decline.
Artist Statement
Machines built to conquer the sky, left to surrender to the earth.
THE PLANE GRAVEYARD explores what remains when the promise of flight ends. Aircraft once engineered for movement and precision have been stripped, dismantled and left behind. Their shells, open cockpits, wiring, engines and weathered skins now occupy an immense, quiet plain.
Through photographic transformation, I remove the distractions of the original surroundings and place these remnants in a spare landscape of dry grass and gray sky. The machines become solitary objects, monuments to ambition, use, abandonment and time. What was designed to rise now belongs to the ground.
— Michael Domino
Final Assembly
Generations of Flight
Grounded
Nature Takes Command
Nothing Left to Hide
One Upon Another
Open Door
Reclaimed
Stripped of Flight
The Fallen Propeller
The Forgotten Fleet
The Heart of the Machine
The Hollow Remains
The Last 2
The Last Landing
The Long Sleep
The One That Got Away
The Power Within
Two of a Kind
Yellow Bird
Yesterday and Today
Three Fuselages