Gary Fisher
©2017-2025 Gary Fisher
Cloud Studies
Ethereal Cloud Series
For a number of years I have been photographing clouds - floating free, reflected on surfaces, tethered and untethered to the earth. The clouds that I photograph are those that resonate with me and evoke an emotion. There is something zen about these clouids. Most are wind-whipped and evolve quickly. They are ephemeral. They are transcient. They help me think in metaphor, scales of time, and the nature of reality. I'll sometimes go weeks not photographing a single cloud. To wait for the perfect moment in the presence of excess is an exercise in moment-to-moment awareness which in a sense is one purpose of making this series.
Below is a slide show of a few examples of this work from 2015 through 2018. Each of these works is copyright © Gary Fisher.
Below is a slide show of a few examples of this work from 2015 through 2018. Each of these works is copyright © Gary Fisher.
Ascendance, 2019
Copyright 2019 Gary Fisher
dye diffusion photograph
dye diffusion photograph
Shooting Star, 2019, 2.5"x2.5"
Copyright 2019 Gary Fisher
dye diffusion photograph
dye diffusion photograph
Billowing, 2019
C 2019 Gary Fisher
archival pigment anaylyph stereoscopic print
archival pigment anaylyph stereoscopic print
Analog, 1990
Copyright 1990 Gary Fisher
Storm, Vedauwoo, 1990
Copyright 1990 Gary Fisher
Analog, 1971
Copyright 1971 Gary Fisher
Grapevine #1, 1973
Copyright 1973 Gary Fisher
Fourteen Clouds, 1974, 8.75"x12.5"x2"
(hand tinted b/w photographs, acrylic, walnut)
Fourteen hand tinted photographs of clouds are mounted on blocks of walnut and displayed on a black acrylic base. The work plays on the incongruity of the materials and the segmenting of the clouds divorcing them from objective reality.
Fourteen hand tinted photographs of clouds are mounted on blocks of walnut and displayed on a black acrylic base. The work plays on the incongruity of the materials and the segmenting of the clouds divorcing them from objective reality.
Two Clouds, 1974, 8.75"x12.1"x2"
(hand tinted b/w photographs, acrylic, walnut)
Two cloud photographs are mounted on a walnut pyramid and trapezoid and displayed on a black acrylic base. This work is a metaphor for the temporal impermanence.of cloud phenomena frozen in two instants of time and separated from their natural environment.
Two cloud photographs are mounted on a walnut pyramid and trapezoid and displayed on a black acrylic base. This work is a metaphor for the temporal impermanence.of cloud phenomena frozen in two instants of time and separated from their natural environment.
Sky Column 1, 1974, 2.25"x4.5"x1.5"
(hand tinted b/w photographs, acrylic, walnut)
Clouds are presented in a sculptural context removing them from their essential transitory nature.
Clouds are presented in a sculptural context removing them from their essential transitory nature.
Pyramid Sky, 1974, 3"x1.75"x2.75"
(hand tinted b/w photographs, walnut)
A sky image is incongruously captured on a pyramid rather than evanescently floating above it.
A sky image is incongruously captured on a pyramid rather than evanescently floating above it.
Sky Column 2, 1974, 2.75" x 8.5" x 1"
(hand tinted b/w photographs, acrylic, walnut)
Clouds are presented in a solid sculptural context removed from their essential transitory nature. This work was conceived as a model for a large scale sculpture where the column could be in brushed stainless steel and the sky imagery is etched on metal.
Clouds are presented in a solid sculptural context removed from their essential transitory nature. This work was conceived as a model for a large scale sculpture where the column could be in brushed stainless steel and the sky imagery is etched on metal.
Sky Sequence # 1, 1974, 12" x 9"
C 1974 Gary Fisher
Three b/w photographs imaged on a Verafax machine. This wet process machine was prior to Xerox copiers.
Three b/w photographs imaged on a Verafax machine. This wet process machine was prior to Xerox copiers.
Selected Cloud Photographs
Early Mixed-Media Cloud Works
Early Copier Studies