Terminal Destination

I'm starting this blog to share some of my favorite projects—what I enjoyed about them, why I think they turned out well, and how I created them. I'll also be linking these posts to social media to showcase my work and connect with others.

This first piece of mine might be a bit overly symbolic—but at the time, I thought it was a great idea. Terminal Destination took a lot of groundwork. My goal was to capture the essence of the old Hollywood "The End" text that appeared in films from the 1930s and '40s and juxtapose it with images that would spark a sense of storytelling in the viewer.

Take, for example, the image of an airplane flying over a suburban city below. Looking at it, I immediately start to wonder—what led up to this moment? Was there just a scene showing the protagonists on the plane? Who are they? Where are they going?

For me, this image embodies the kind of art I aim to create. When I was a kid, there was a cable channel called AMC (American Movie Classics) that showed old black-and-white films without commercial interruptions. Unlike today, when you can start any film at a whim, these films ran on a schedule—you couldn’t pause or rewind them. The ones that stuck with me the most were the ones I caught in the middle and never got to finish. I had to fill in the blanks myself, imagining what had happened before and what would come next.

That feeling—the need to construct a story from scattered pieces—is what I try to capture in my images. And with Terminal Destination, I think I came pretty close.