Caleb Cain Marcus

A line in the sky #9

2017

A line in the sky #8 2017 Pigment print with 24k gold leaf 24 x 35 inches (61 x 88.9 cm) $5,700 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

A brief movement after death 8 2017 Pigment print with china marker 18.25 x 24 inches (46.4 x 61 cm) $4,500 This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

I'D RATHER LOOK AT CLOUDS "…Here we go alone and like it better so...Now lying recumbent…this incessant making up of shapes and casting them down…this incessant ringing up and down of curtains of light and shade, this interminable experiment with gold shafts and blue shadows, with viewing the sun and unveiling it, with making rock ramparts and wafting them away – this endless activity…One should not let this gigantic cinema [of clouds] play perpetually to an empty house…" Virginia Woolf On Being Ill This series began from my bed photographing clouds tripping along the horizon of the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, home to Los Alamos National Laboratory. I had just moved to my small studio perched high that I’d cobbled together over several years. My casual cloud gazing immediately became part of a pain-lessening arsenal - and how lucky for me living in an amphitheatre with an unexpected generous subject – a nearly 24-hour a day theater. The title of this series comes from an exchange with a friend about war...

This image is printed in an edition of 3, but comes in smaller sizes. Each photograph is hand printed on Canson Baryta Paper and is signed and editioned by the artist. Sarah Hadley...