The contrails of jet aircraft lace the sky over Ghent's gothic cathedral that was built during the middle ages. The great Flemish painter Jan van Eyck's remarkable 1432 "Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" is on display here, the first masterpiece ever to be painted with oils. By converting the sky from blue to black, I’ve made the dissolving contrail plumes seem less real and more symbolic as they diagonally crown the cathedral and the statue that stands in the plaza before it. They celebrate the splendor of this place, and salute the force of the sun as it emerges from behind the bell tower.