The Cloud of Unknowing hypha-gallery-camberwell The face-like form emerges through

The face-like form emerges through swirling

how do we respond to what remains mysterious

Dominating the composition are extreme close-up of drifting seedheads

I am preoccupied with how mental states alter engagement with reality

focussing on a fragment from a familiar landscape

The Cloud of Unknowing hypha-gallery-camberwell The face-like form emerges throughThe Cloud of Unknowing was the title of a book written by an anonymous monk from a Carthusian order in the 14th century. The text explores how knowledge of the divine can be expressed through poetry and wonder, and the observation that the spiritual experience is beyond that which the rational mind can effectively describe. Sharing the same title, this painting is a playful take on this, and contains small hybrid creatures, referencing alchemy and