Lines of Flight is a sequence of volumetric digital poems exploring the entanglements of wind, wing, and flying technique that constitute the airborne encounter. These poems seek to depict the human and more-than-human registers of atmospheric flight from which they have emerged, while gesturing toward the histories, infrastructures, and media environments that entwine them.

Lines of Flight was inspired by my own perspective on the airborne encounter as a glider pilot, as well as an artist and an academic. The practical demands of reading and negotiating a fluctuating aerial environment has brought a range of visceral experiences into dialogue with my growing understanding of what it means to think about and with the atmospheric domain. These poems are an attempt at articulating these understandings—to crystallise them in a format that can do justice to the rich possibilities of thought and expression they suggest.