Certain structures, when observed through a telephoto lens and isolated against a Rococo sky, take on the aspect of hovering fortresses or military spacecraft. What are these ships? Who built them? Why do they remain aloft? Is there anyone left inside to operate them? This series of studeis uses digital imaging and manipulation to re-imagine the city's buildings as an inert armada – hulking relics of a once-powerful civilization, long extinct. Once menacing agents of intimidation and avarice, the Defenders now simply float in the distance, dormant guardians of a vanished empire.