LED Backlit Airliner – Night Landing Scene

This piece features a dramatic nighttime landing of a commercial airliner, brought to life through a combination of painting and hand-crafted illumination. The aircraft descends toward a darkened runway, its landing lights glowing, capturing the quiet intensity of a nighttime approach.

Behind the runway, a silhouette of distant houses forms a subtle horizon line. Each window and light source has been pierced individually with a needle, allowing the LED lighting from behind the canvas to shine through. This technique gives the scene a striking depth—tiny points of light sparkle like real neighborhoods seen from the cockpit on final approach.

The LED backlighting transforms the entire composition, creating a dynamic contrast between darkness and illumination. The piece shifts in atmosphere depending on the light level: calm and moody with the LEDs off, glowing and cinematic when they are on.

This artwork blends aviation realism with a unique tactile lighting method, turning a painted night landing into an immersive, luminous experience.