The feeling that the sky might be in the back of someone’s mind.
— John Ashbery, For John Clare, 1956
— John Ashbery, For John Clare, 1956
Cloud is a body without a surface but not without substance.
— Hubert Damisch, A Theory of /Cloud/, 2002
— Hubert Damisch, A Theory of /Cloud/, 2002
A two-faced simulacrum of a cloud that escaped capture by a picture plane. In a blurred image, as you do not see the surface, you do not know where to stop and focus; the glass of the picture frame is also clouded by grime accumulated over the years, and the reverse pane is cracked, making the cloud’s image even more remote from its progenitor.
