I thought I could fly

This pigment inkjet print by Swiss multidisciplinary artist Reka Judit Jaksics depicts a figure in a moment of aspiration or suspended motion, its title suggesting themes of imagined flight and the gap between desire and physical limitation. Jaksics works across music, photography, and printmaking, and this image likely draws on photographic source material rendered through inkjet output — a process that allows fine gradations of tone and color fidelity comparable in precision to traditional bokashi gradation, though achieved through digital means. The figure-based composition situates the work within a broader tradition of figurative print that includes bijin-ga portraiture, though Jaksics reframes the figure through a contemporary, introspective lens. The title's past-tense phrasing implies retrospection rather than triumph, lending the image an elegiac quality. Produced in the context of her cultural practice at ocar and charley in Horgen, the work reflects her interest in cross-disciplinary expression and the intersection of performance, memory, and visual art.