Back in London; and continuing to this date, I have made more and more photographs of these planes, generally from the same place, and at the same time of year, near where I used to live in East London. The holding pattern on ‘westerly operations’, takes all incoming Heathrow aircraft over Hackney, Islington, The City, Westminster and most everywhere else over London and its populace.

The aircraft in these photographs, their altitude, fragility and commercial purpose, their routes over our lives, now offer us an altogether more ambivalent identity. The most banal yet beautiful modern objects.

I had actually written out a will before I left for New York on September 10th. Something I had never thought of doing before, I have no idea why I did it then, it was useless, because no had witnessed me doing it, I’d not even signed the document, but I printed it out, and left it on a bookcase in my flat. Then I left for the airport.

David Moore June 2004

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