Cloud Walk 3

Gerhard Lang has coined a specific word for a particular area of his research into landscape aesthetics: nubeology. It involves the study of an extremely elusive and mobile part of the landscape: the natural phenomenon of clouds. The Cloud Walks represent a special method of a nubeological approach to the clouds in the sky.

Instead of considering merely density, altitude or appearance – as is the case with atmospheric physics – Gerhard Lang asks: “How does it smell? What does a cloud sound like? Is it on the soft or hard side? Does it have a particular taste? What gender could it be?” Equipped with a walking stick, a separating funnel, a specifications form and a meteorological device, he documents both “exact” readings and less verifiable data such as the gender of a cloud or its aroma. Finally he sucks a 2000 ml sample of each cloud into the funnel and seals it.

(Excerpts from texts by Stephen Bann and Susanne Witzgall)