Stones in the sky, clouds on the ground
Materia gris Residency
La Paz, Bolivia.
2017
Research about stones and clouds at the Materia Gris Residency in La Paz, Bolivia.
I take the cable car to reach the clouds. Below, I concur with a glow of zinc roofs supported by stones. The sun hits the earth, reveals the vertical path, just as the plants chase the light.
Each cloud is connected to a stone, in their forms there is an echo and the distance is given by the silence between them.
It seems that the clouds are created by the mountains, as they emerge from there,their leafy forms are stones in the sky that sometimes spout water.
The stone seems immobile, while the cloud evaporates.Why does the cloud hold up in the sky if it is heavier than the stone?
Does the stone support the cloud?
The cloud is observed with the eye, its size covers the pupil, the stone is squeezed with the hand and its texture is felt.
What do we imagine with clouds, more than what we have inside? Can we reveal our brain through them? Is our vision a lens?
The stone gives matter, the cloud reflects, there is a correspondence between heaven and earth,the stone as treasure and the cloud as a vision. On the ground a cloud and in the sky a stone, connected by a vertical thread, just like the body on the earth.
Sofía Nercasseau