A brooding balloonscape to kickstart the week, courtesy of French researcher and photographer Charles Pétillon. Pétillon creates large-scale installations in natural environments using dozens of white balloons, before photographing these self-termed “invasions” for posterity. The effect is surreal and beautiful, haunting and unsettling all at once—and deliberately so. “These balloon invasions are metaphors,” the image-maker has said. “Their goal is to change the way we see the things we live alongside each day without really noticing them. I am trying to… make it possible to go beyond practical perception to [revive] aesthetic experience.”
