Backyard High uses the sky as both subject and medium. The shifting cloudscape was captured through multiple exposures on a single image using red, green, and blue filters—the fundamental ingredients of white light. This layering emphasizes the fluid nature of time, light, and atmospheric change. The skies inspire awe but are increasingly shaped by instability, with haze and airborne chemicals complicating beauty and rendering images both luminous and dissonant—a mirror of life in a changing climate.The project originated during a 2011 residency at Petrified Forest National Park, where daily skywatching became a kind of practice—part meditation, part exposure. In this open and elevated landscape, the sky was never just backdrop, but a dynamic force shaped by weather systems, pollution, and the invisible infrastructures of energy and industry. The photographs reflect a layered perception of the sky: as sublime, unstable, and intimately connected to the forces we live within.