A Book of Justice for Clouds
What is it all about?
The idea of making a cloud related timeline started after I organized a workshop of “tree blind-dating” last summer in a park in London. After the workshop, we had a discussion on the fluidity of plants and how to work in, with and for the environment, however I found out how the clouds in the sky are always neglected. Even when I was visiting different galleries, clouds are always in the background. They are the thrones of gods and , they are here to only to give a sense of mood, in English language the reputation is literally bad, when you are down or depressed, you are “under a cloud”, and when there is bad news, there is a cloud in the horizon, why are clouds always symbolizing obstacle in language?
Using a timeline, I wanted to show readers how clouds evolve, not as “ airy” “vague” “foggy”, like everyone described in all the centuries. Why will clouds be so under- represented for so long? With the method of a timeline and the methodology of a sidekick, it makes it clear how periods can overlap, it is like seeing something grow in an instance and as well everything relates from the start to now.
I have been struggling for so long to identify what the book’s aim is, it is showing audience how the small sidekick make it’s way, fighting for a throne in the world to inspire human improve intellectually and physically.
To me, it is not a hundred percent right to say clouds have no weight. Literally, they contains billions and trillions of water and for artists, they are shapes with three dimension, light and shadows. Clouds are fluid and equal, although they do not have any borders restricting them and their forms are so interchangeable, there are so many ideas and intelligent in it. The first ever speech-bubble is as early as a centuries before cartoonist invented them.
In the following pages, I will explore how people represent clouds throughout history making visual arts as the base criteria, how does the stance of clouds changed, How clouds evolve from just being imagined objects into our necessity in out daily lives and is it still a sidekick?
