«Mobilized by state and corporate powers, toxic clouds colonize the air we breathe across different scales and durations, from urban squares to continents and from incidents to epochal latencies»
«Studying such contemporary clouds necessitate a different approach to the analysis of kinetic encounters where “every contact leaves a trace”. Clouds are the epitome of transformations and their dynamics are elusive, governed by nonlinear and multi-causal logics. This is a problem that originated throughout the history of painting, when clouds were moving faster than the painter’s brush could capture them. and sometimes needed to be conceived rather than described.»
«Bomb clouds contain everything that a building once was: cement, plaster, plastic, glass, timber, fabric, paperwork, medicines… sometimes parts of human bodies. Bomb clouds are architecture in gaseous form»»
https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/cloudstudies
PDF ‘Responses to the cloud’: https://art.uts.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/CloudStudies-Book-Final-Web.pdf