Pamela DeJong

Cloud City

Encaustic, gold and copper leaf on braced birch panel. Sides painted black. No frame.

12″ x 12″ x 1.5″

2022

This painting was inspired by a book that I read last summer called Cuckoo Cloud Land authored by Anthony Doerr. One of the characters in the book describes a city in the clouds. This painting is how I imagined it: floating buildings in the clouds with the sun shining on them and a fresh breeze wafting through the windows. In order to gain entry to the city, one must answer a riddle: “He that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this.” The answer is “Nothing.” This is my version of a shining, shimmering city in the clouds.

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