2014
inkjet prints on archival photo paper, 23 x 23 cm
Whenever I have a chance, I sit down and watch the sky from my bedroom window. The habit of quietly observing shifting clouds formed during my one-year-long stay in a Buddhist monastery in a remote valley in the Himalayas. The capricious and changeable nature of the sky, has become a fascination ever since.
The work developed over a period of time and the photographs form together a private cloud-planet collection. The colours and shapes of each individual image become reflections on both: the fleeting materiality of cloud manifestations in the environment and the mental states evoked by looking at the sky.
The circle has no beginning and no ending, it is a symbol of transitoriness and rolling chance. Past, present and future seamlessly merge into it. In outer space all liquid particles are suspended in a spherical form, so is our breath when we try to breathe under water, releasing little balls of air into it. The boundaries of our physical world are circular too: in the form of the planet we live on.
According to scientists, water (in a cloud: in the lightest of its forms) has memory - it ‘remembers’ what it came in contact with, the temperature it experienced and the energies that impacted it.
Can it then mean that a certain cloud formation above a city or a town reflects the sum of the changing emotional states of its inhabitants?
C.P., Flow World Water Day, group exhibition, Kontrapunkt Gallery, Poznan, 2014