The ‘Cloudscape’ series are photographs of painted clouds on distressed plaster walls. The images reminded me of Chinese and Japanese landscape paintings in which clouds are often central areas of emptiness within the pictorial scene. These spatial gaps served a double purpose in scroll paintings as representing the Buddhist void (behind appearances) and the material substrate, the paper of the painted scrolls left bare; they mediate between the presence and absence of the pictorial illusion. My found ‘Cloudscapes’ seem to operate exactly on that threshold of appearance and disappearance, as the slow degeneration of the blown plaster takes over the painted contours of the clouds. The images create an ambiguous space in which surfaces, materialities as well as modes of representation (painting, photography) interweave.
Cloudscape I (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print
Cloudscape II (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print
Cloudscape III (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print
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Cloudscape IV (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print
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Cloudscape V (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print
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Cloudscape VI (2022-24) 12x8 inch Archival gicle print