The central work of the series Wolkenvermesser is the installation Der Sinn des Wolkenvermessens (Working Title: Wolkenatlas) für Jean-Luc Nancy (2007/2014–2021) (The Sense of Measuring Clouds (Working Title: Cloud Atlas) for Jean-Luc Nancy). The 81-part work—silkscreen, pencil on paper, acetone transfer printing, paper collages, acrylic, and gesso—deals with the possibility of the creation and measurement of meaning. The clouds, which recur in various formats and representations, from childishly naive to abstract drawings from memory to elaborate scientific analyses, serve as a symbol for the genesis of understanding and meaning and allow structures and similarities to be discerned. The underlying grid of graph paper shows how meaning can be created and become a system, what rules of order are necessary and possible, and reflects the relationship of a system to what is represented, and vice versa.
The basic assumption of this work, as well as the entire series, is that understanding is only possible through the connection of individual elements, through which similarity becomes perceptible: For instance, there is a depiction of the mushroom cloud from the nuclear weapons tests on Bikini Atoll in 1946, a collage of cauliflower on a cloud formation, which in turn picks up on and repeats it, as well as a technical exploded view drawing. The resulting similarities can be measured, organized, and categorized in different ways: scientifically according to mathematical, conceptual, and logical criteria, but also sensually, visually, and emotionally in a pre-linguistic way of thinking that remains directly in subjective perception. At the same time, the reception of the work is repeatedly interrupted by things that cannot be brought into a meaningful context and elude a fixed legibility.
