Metaphysics by Kate Joyce

Hardcover, 102 pages7 in x 9.5 in | 17.78 cm x 24.13 cm35 color photographsLimited to 300 copiesIncludes essay by writer and culture critic Lawrence Weschler Metaphysics is a book and a series of color photographs made on board airplanes. There is an unreasonableness in our human desire for flight. We are itinerant "featherless bipeds" cocooned in reassuring cabin interiors supported by the mechanics of aerodynamics.  Here is photographer Kate Joyce on the idea behind Metaphysics: "In the beginning I photographed the aerial view out the window—a cold, detached, and mesmerizing blueprint. Overtime I discovered a more intimate view within the aircraft: bodies, sunlight, hands, and drapery. Human organization closer to a chrysalis than the architecture of flight. And in this confinement that feels close to both birth and death, there is incredible light. I spent seven years, between 2012 and 2019, on over 50 airplanes coveting the window seat, looking for a variety of illuminated bodies—i