canvas skies

canvas skies

de lucht als canvas

Still, I found the observation of clouds and waves more enjoyable than the study of mankind.

— Herman Hesse


In 2010, my attention was drawn to the stripes in the sky. I had noticed them from time to time, but more and more seemed to appear. Airplanes suddenly left behind stripes that enlarged. In my youth there were short stripes in certain weather conditions, that dispersed quickly. Now on some days it was a whole jumble of stripes that became huge cloud covers. They had even been given an official name, cirrus homogenitus.

Cirrus stands for feather clouds or high stripes, homogenitus means man-made. Scientists clearly show by the name that these were not natural clouds, but the result of human intervention. Yet the new clouds were dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Chemtrails would simply be condensation trails. But water vapor would evaporate immediately, while these streaks fanned out and floated in the atmosphere for hours, if not days.

I went looking for a solution and studied the work of Wilhelm Reich and his orgonite booster. With orgonite it was possible to cause openings in the dense veils and restore the flow of the air. It produced beautiful cloud formations. I started capturing these angelic looking cloud shapes in photographs.

Through the chemtrails, I became aware of the environmental pollution in the air, but more importantly of the cleansing that is possible by restoring the flow with meditative attention and orgonite. Then special cloud shapes would emerge, reminiscent of the air beings called Sylphs. Are there sky angels who come to the rescue when invited? You can discover all sorts of things in the graceful forms, but for the sober observer it remains mostly a soupy mess what man manages to make of the sky by flying so intensively through the air.

cloud illusions | Zeist NL, 28 juli 2018
slingers in de lucht | Zeist NL, 4 juli 2016
hartwolkje | Zeist NL, 23 juli 2016
de witte tornado | Naarden NL, 26 november 2015
waslijn | Zeist NL, 19 maart 2012
tic tac toe | Zeist NL, 21 april 2015
sylphs festival | Zeist NL, 25 mei 2011
sylphs festival | Zeist NL, 25 mei 2011
sylphs festival | Zeist NL, 25 mei 2011
magic morning in Old Sarum | Salisbury UK, 14 februari 2011
magic morning in Old Sarum | Salisbury UK, 14 februari 2011
magic morning in Old Sarum | Salisbury UK, 14 februari 2011
vis in de avondlucht | Arnhem NL, 15 April 2011
phoenix dove | Kingweston UK, 8 februari 2011
geestmannetje | Zeist NL, 1 mei 2015
bevrijdde geesten | Zeist NL, 18 september 2015
geesten in de avondlucht | Zeist NL, 8 mei 2011
Fontana snede | Ardennen BE, 4 april 2011

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— photo & video art by Frank Zweers