Aviation Quote by Aleksandra Mir

“The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.”

Aleksandra Mir

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