The Clouds

This drawing has been made with pencil and charcoal on watercolour paper.
It represents a woman whose head is lost in the clouds. Her gaze is wandering in the sky, her mind is elsewhere.

I have always had my head in the clouds, since ever. That feeling of being somewhere with my feet, and somewhere else with my head. Sometimes it is a way to escape reality which is too hard to face, sometimes it is a different connection with reality itself, just a different angle of view.

In 'The Clouds' a comedy by the conservative Aristophane, Socrates is represented as a thinker dedicated to new useless speeches and reasoning: he sits in mid-air in a basket to "free his mind" or discusses futile things. We all know how these futile reasonings of Socrates still have an impact on our lives, thousands of years later.

This is my tribute to what is often considered as being useless things and futile thoughts, which are in many cases the most important ones.