Sky and Cloud

They ask us to consider how we define boundaries. There is something ‘democratic’ about clouds: they float over borders, ignore walls, belong to no one. Yet, at the same time, they are deeply political—connected to climate, industry, and our ever-shifting relationship with nature.

And yet they remain a symbol of life. Of rebirth. Of origin. It is our shared territory: a mental expanse, a body. Like the sky—its substance, a gathering of particles. Perhaps the final territory we might all share, in the face of all that divides us.

In a world obsessed with certainty and permanence, clouds suggest another way of being—fluid, adaptive, momentary.

Xavier Verhoest