To Frame The Sky

• Photographer
  Ieva Gaile

The facade of a modern building in Vilnius becomes a thief, capturing fragments of the blue sky within its precise grids. The windows hoard the heavens, leaving behind a desolate gradient grey - an unspoken void. The architecture is a silent antagonist, slicing nature into rectangles of possession, where the sky is no longer free but trapped, dissected, and reframed as art.

I‘m a 29-year-old lawyer from Vilnius, Lithuania. Despite following a different career path, I never lost sight of my childhood dream to become an architect. As I wandered the city streets, especially during the pandemic, I rediscovered my love for shaping the space according to my taste and understanding through photography. It allows me to play freely with forms, angles, and relationships of different structures without the constraints of functionality that come with architecture. Rather than taking a documentary approach, I use reality as my canvas and create my own interpretation of space