Cloud Patterns - 風もよう
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- Ohmi Gallery
Description
This composition is titled "Cloud Patterns" but carries the Japanese subtitle 風もよう (kazemoyō, "wind patterns") — a revealing pairing that suggests for Nakajima Kiyoshi, clouds and wind are aspects of the same atmospheric phenomenon. Clouds are wind made visible at a larger scale: the shapes and movements of clouds record the patterns of upper-atmospheric wind in the same way that moving grass records wind at ground level. His characteristic interest in making the invisible visible finds in cloud patterns a subject at the boundary between wind and water, between air and earth.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Cloud Patterns - 風もよう was created by Nakajima Kiyoshi (中島潔).
Cloud Patterns - 風もよう depicts landscapes, figures, and abstract.