Chance is what brought this book around. In preparing for a weekend getaway, a quick visit to the library provided the perfect book. First, because it was small enough to fit in a traveling hand bag, and second, because it undeniably had a very interesting aura to it, including the fact that I found the author's last name most intriguing, as she is related to Homero Aridjis.
Book of Clouds, by Chloe Aridjis, is a gem of a book. It is filled with beautiful vignettes of incredible surreal content, a poignant account of contemporary Berlin through the eyes of a foreigner. Needless to say, the pages of my sketchbook were definitely impacted by this book, resulting in very compelling, playful imagery. A few visual references came to mind almost immediately, lending themselves to the dissection of their fabulous palettes.
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| Aaron Morse, Cloud World, 2003 |
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| From the film: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, 2001. Immaculately conceptualized by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant. |
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| This image conveys one of the perks of sitting in Toronto traffic on a perfect cloudy afternoon. Magritte's Empire of Light always comes to mind on such days. |
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