A vast white flying-wing command aircraft over a coastal harbour, pale iridescent skin drinking the sky, starlight jets along the trailing edge, a long shadow on the water below.

Permanent collection

Cloud Hurricane

One hull only

Artist: Matthew · word-painter
Subject: M5 Cloud Hurricane
Medium: Digital painting
Year: 2026
Hung: 13 September 2026
Accession: MG.2026.017

Wall text

Hung 13 September 2026, same walnut as Harbour Knit, seventeenth hook, landscape so the wing and the harbour both stay. White and pale blue that will not stay one colour once the air has it. Starlight jets. Command glass in the spine. The shadow is a district. M3 made the harbour honest; the sky was still empty. One hull, so the map stays honest. Byzanth may count it from the dome. They do not get a postcard. Accession MG.2026.017. The Works page holds the plate. This is the underway.