Cloud Spheroid | Rotating dynamic disk Element of expansion Empirical idealism |
I have been photographing clouds for a long time. It started when I was a pilot in the Navy where I had the opportunity to spend countless long hours airborne over the North Atlantic. There were many days in which I would take off in the dark from an airbase, fly out over the ocean all day, and then land at a different airbase after the sun had set. It was fortunate that I was entertained by atmospheric conditions. I found cloud formations and the their attendant light modifying effects to be appealing on many levels, but primarily photographed them for their spectacular visual qualities. Unlike some other well known approaches to this subject, I am interested in clouds as clouds, not as metaphors for something else. But as I developed a large repository of cloud photographs, I also became involved in finding ways of using those images in other more experimental and conceptual work.
Hence the “Cloud Spheroid” series.
