Rendered at a large scale, through a forensic attention to surface detail, the objects become more than simple handmade models. They are fragile structures with no independent means of propulsion, unable to lift off without being held, thrown, launched, or supported. Their promise of flight is therefore inseparable from dependency. What looks at first like a childlike object begins to suggest a wider condition: the need to be carried, enabled, and sustained.

Against a culture that often celebrates self-reliance, autonomy, and personal responsibility, these makeshift airplanes offer a quieter and more ambivalent image of contemporary life. They point to the support systems, emotional, social, and material, that make movement possible but often remain unseen. Their fragility is not simply weakness; it becomes a way of thinking about interdependence, care, and the forms of strength that emerge when dependency is recognised rather than denied.