Clouds drift across our skies with a quiet presence, evoking peace, joy, awe, and sometimes unease. Though untouchable, they hold immense power: absorbing, reflecting, and refracting light, they can obscure the sun and moon or amplify their intensity. From J.M.W Turner, John Constable and Thomas Cole, to Georgia O’Keefe, and Gerhard Richter, artists have endeavoured to capture the formation, reflectance and temperament of clouds. 

a/drift presents a new body of work by Brisbane-based artist Claudia Husband that seeks to capture the essence of clouds, or rather, our fascination with them. The series of mezzotint prints and lithographs offer vignettes, windows and glimpses of cloud-like formations in an attempt to capture their ephemeral motion within the printed surface. The depiction of clouds as solitary forms may seem intuitive, but clouds rarely exist alone. Their portrayal as formations in isolation are often interpreted as an analogy for the human psyche, floating adrift, but inevitably drifting toward one another again. 

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