Joe Rudi Pielichaty began collecting blue skies in 2008 when, whilst a student in Edinburgh, he found himself bearing feelings of anxiety and melancholy. Longing for an escape, he began cutting out jagged shards of bright sky from the travel pages of newspapers, preserving them in sketchbooks and photo albums as souvenirs of his (wistful) travels. To this day, a piece of the sky is collected every time Joseph needs to remember that behind all grey clouds awaits a blue sky.
