The Milky Way belongs to a series of landscapes devoid of human presence, photographed along the Baltic coast in the Kaliningrad region. The image presents a still seascape suspended in violet and pink light, where a line of stones and weathered posts extends into the distance. Rather than functioning as a setting for human experience, the landscape appears as an autonomous field shaped by water, atmosphere and duration.

The title introduces a cosmological association, linking the receding line of forms to a celestial path. This resemblance does not turn the scene into illustration. Instead, it opens a relation between the surface of the sea and the scale of the sky, allowing the coastal landscape to evoke a wider spatial order that exceeds human measure. Through this posthuman perspective, the work displaces the human figure from the centre of the image and allows matter, light and distance to structure the composition.

Created using analogue photography, the image retains the softness and tonal delicacy characteristic of the medium. The long exposure smooths the water into a dense, almost immaterial surface, while the stones remain as dark interruptions that guide the eye towards the horizon. As a result, the observed landscape becomes suspended between documentation and abstraction, where the shoreline briefly acquires the appearance of a luminous route through an otherwise silent expanse.