This month’s art is called Nimbus de Toekomst 1, 2019 by Berndnaut Smilde
The cover art for I Belong to the Sky is called ‘Nimbus de Toekomst 1, 2019’ by Berndnaut Smilde, with a photo by Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk. Smilde’s work consists of installations, sculptures and photography. His Nimbus works present a transitory moment of presence in a specific location and Smilde is interested in that short-term, temporary aspect of the work. The clouds exist for a few seconds before they fall apart again.
“I loved this image of the sky,” adds Peter. “The cloud brought inside - that mixture of outside and interior worlds. I think that's what the song is all about. This mix between the interior and the exterior and the transition between them. So, I was very happy that we were allowed to use this image.
Berndnaut has talked about the clouds being able to represent different things, even happy things and that they could also be about dreams and provide a sense of the future. I didn't know that when I saw the image but, obviously, he was thinking visually in very similar ways to how I was working with the lyric and the sound. Part of the pleasure of this whole process of trying to work with visual artists is that they also spend a lot of time and energy thinking through their work to get to the point of the image and when it sometimes intuitively feels like a match, you get more than the sum of the parts.”
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