See the virtual companion to the publication with audio recordings and other interactive and accessibility features: https://www.cloudcollection.ca/
This publication is now available for free - to be mailed around the world - from the Owens Gallery. See the virtual companion to the project, including audio and interactive elements at: cloudcollection.ca
In Cloud Collection, Diane Borsato invites us on a cloud-watching expedition through the Owens Art Gallery collection. Taking the form of a printed field guide, the project features twenty-one works with accompanying texts that describe lightning, sun dogs, and various atmospheric effects. At once playful and critical, Cloud Collection highlights the wonder of museum collections and the infinite ways that they can be combined, recombined, and mined for new meanings.
Cloud Collection changes not only how we might look at art, but also the sky. Encouraging us to look up and attend to the world around us, it also asks us to consider the “climate” of our times.
Cloud Collection was commissioned by the Owens Art Gallery while the museum was closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021.
Cloud Collection was designed by JP King. The full-colour, accordion-fold publication extends to become a 56” skyline.
Free copies are available on request. Published in both English and French. Request a copy →