aerial archaeology

The infinitely engrossing Colossal shares an amazing gallery of photographs that require a trained eye to appreciate, and not just the vantage and altitude of a Cessna, which the artist Klaus Leidorf pilots over diverse landscapes of Germany. Looking down, and not just as an eye in the sky, one begins to appreciate how humans have fashioned and transformed the environment, often without realising how large these tracts are, for their use. Though the smallest details and sharp focus ought to be receding, its this macroscopic attention are in the foreground and really seem to lend perspective and other-worldliness to the pictures.