This is about my love of flying. From my studio in the chestnut forest of Fossarino, Rossiglione, the stars are an amazing sight and don’t seem all that far off. So the fact that they are countless light-years away – so distant that even if there were life there, we would never be able to make contact with them because light or radio signals would take so long to cover the distance – makes me wonder about the Creation, and why we are compelled to come to terms with the realisation that, even though there may be intelligent life somewhere in the universe, we’re never going to be able to say hello.