Lisa Sewards | MONO NO AWARE II (Fleeting Clouds)

2024

scrolled etchings, paper twine, solander box

14 x 14 x 4 cm

Boxed artist book. Six scrolls 12cm length, 2cm diameter, paper twine, archival solander box with gold leaf embossing, 14x14x4cm (closed), 14x32x3.5cm (open)

“An untranslatable term in Japanese is Mono No Aware, an acute sensitivity to the transience of short lived beauty, a melancholy awareness that such beauty will fade combined with a rich enjoyment. The sight of clouds can provoke such an emotion as their visibility changes, dissolves or fades. Each scroll records the ephemeral cloud structures of the cirrus, nimbus, stratus, cumulus, nimbostratus and altocumulus”