TRACYFISH

In After Equivalents, clouds are used as escapism. During the early twentieth century, photographer Alfred Stieglitz made hundreds of studies of clouds in which these abstractions of the sky were meant to be representative of personal philosophy and reflection. These works were known by many names, Music: A Sequence of Ten, Cloud Photographs, Songs of the Sky, and later, Equivalents. Through my own studies of these sublime forms, I am fascinated by their ability to simultaneously remain constant entities that I can look upwards to as a form of metaphysical escape, yet the slightest change in atmosphere will cause them to morph and dissolve, timely, in the midst of disorder.