Perceptible Consciousness

Perceptible Consciousness brings the cloud into relation with the mind. Its form gathers without settling into a fixed boundary, suggesting the way thoughts take shape, overlap and disperse. The cloud appears ordered and chaotic at once, its coherence inseparable from the turbulence within it. Stratification gives this uncertain form a precise structure. Regularly spaced transparent layers divide the cloud into distinct planes while allowing it to appear continuous through depth. This coexistence resonates with Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s account of smooth and striated space: fluid space and measured division are interwoven, continually passing into one another. In the artwork, the cloud’s apparent freedom and the ordered structure of its layers remain visible together. As the viewer moves, the cloud gathers into volume and separates into intervals. These changes bring attention to the viewer’s own position, movement and act of perception. Awareness turns towards the self as well as the subject: the viewer becomes conscious of their own presence in the space and of their part in giving the form coherence. The title finds its meaning in this encounter, where perceiving the cloud also becomes an experience of oneself perceiving.