Seed Space: Jana Harper's The Cloud Story Project

Seed Space is excited to present a series of images from Jana Harper’s ongoing social practice work “The Cloud Story Project” on view Sept 5th-Sept 14th in the Track One hallway. Since 2013, Seed Social artist Jana Harper has been collecting “cloud stories.”

Earlier this year, with help from reference librarian Liz Coleman and local artist Becca Moore, Harper collected stories at the Nashville Public Library from staff and patrons. The stories were recorded, transcribed, edited, and will be re-presented alongside images from her mother’s cloud photo archive.

Inspired by her search to recover thousands of photographic negatives of clouds taken by her mother who was diagnosed with Bipolar I, Harper explores the supernatural in the everyday by recontextualizing her mother’s obsession with clouds through the experiences of others.