Dimmi Cosa Sono Le Nuvole
(Tell me what clouds are)
A Catalogue of clouds, an inverted atlas where the above becomes the below:
The sky becomes an ocean, and the clouds become islands. Shifting maps of imaginary horizons.
Morphology of clouds, a catalogue of possible horizons. Skies are oceans, and clouds are islands that, like rafts adrift, break their continuity. An inverted atlas, where above becomes below and light turns to dark. Shifting horizons—some changing swiftly, like clouds whipped by the winter wind; others drifting slowly, like on a soft summer afternoon. Each photograph is an imaginary map: you can glimpse small mountains, a river curving around the last hill, and there—the coastline washed by another sky. To photograph clouds is to attempt the impossible: to define, with a still image, something that is never still; to shape something that has no fixed shape. (2023)
