Diamond Zhou

Art has always been drawn towards this unstable territory. In the past, dreams appeared as messages delivered to sleeping saints, prophets, rulers, and heroes; later, they became expressions of desire, fear, memory, and the unconscious. The dream offered art more than unusual subject matter, it offered another structure for reality.

A title is never only a name. It is the first piece of language that attaches itself to a work of art, and often the first influence placed upon our looking.

Storms entered art long before they were part of a weather forecast, before clouds were classified, before barometers translated air pressure into prediction, before weather became data, storms belonged to the realm of signs.