Cloud

8 March - 2 April 2023

Alexander James, Cumulus 1 north-east gale

Cloud is an old word in the English language, a word originally related to "clod". Cloud once meant a mass of rock or a hill. So in a sense to talk about cloud is to talk about airborne rocks, of mountains hanging in the sky. In an age of carbon cycles this meaning takes on a whole new truth. Rocks are literally clouds slowed down.

In this series of photographic works, Alexander James explores these themes, relative speeds and densities and convertibility of processes into objects. A re-working of Romanticism's discovery of atmosphere for our own climatically troubled times.

This work represents the cloud component.