Pondering clouds...

It's funny how things can be with you for quite a while, and then you look at them with fresh eyes and begin to wonder what else they might become.

The spark for this re-consideration was a visit by a gallery manager who wanted to take a look at a book of mine. In preparing the studio for her visit, I stopped to look at some of my small Amongst The Clouds prints and wondered how would I explain what they were?

That got me thinking and I thought that they needed to become a book; yet how to bind clouds?

The words are printed on small sheets of goyu paper - soft and feathery edges; light-as-a-cloud paper.

They look mightily structured when you see them in their formation here.  and somehow that just didn't feel right for clouds.

So I started jotting down thoughts about how I could sequence them; how could I stitch them? What thread could I use?  All the questions that I have to ask and answer in order for the final work to have integrity. 

On reflection, I see these pages as a conversation I have with myself - posing questions, answering questions, making points asking myself to pay attention to certain things...intriguing. Quite literally you can see the conversation and the statements back and forth I think.

And that was the real question wasn't it? Stitching Clouds...

But I have come to a form of resolution, melding a bunch of ideas about softness, and drifting, and not being held; about forming and re-forming...

And now the prototype sits waiting to begin...