Conversations Between Skies

"Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats towards the horizon..." 
- Mary Oliver, (The Sun, 1992)

A conversation between skies’ is a project I started in 2017 while living in Nova Scotia, Canada. Homesick for Saskatchewan’s “living skies,” my mother and I documented the sky four times a day (sunrise, midday, sunset, and evening) for a week in our respective locales.

For this 2026 iteration, my partner captured home skies over Montreal, while I collected horizons around Lisbon. The results are a series of small abstract sky paintings created through photographic means. Gathering and sharing daily snapshots was a grounding ritual, a reminder to pause and appreciate fleeting moments of wonder. Installed in my studio at PADA Studios, the images from Portugal sit above those from Quebec, creating a dialogue between two distant geographies. Together, they read as a love letter between people, places, and the colourful, ever-changing atmospheres above.

‘A conversation between skies (Portugal and Quebec, February 14–21, 2026),’ 58 film photographs, 5.5 x 8.5 cm.

Images 1 and 2 by Samuel Duarte