les cerises — How to Catch a Cloud? — Ingrid Hora

How to carch a cloud? by Ingrid Hora is the new book from the publishing house les cerises – co-founded by Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo with Agnese and Cecilia Canziani.

Clouds carry tiny, invisible drops of water—so small you can’t see them. In some parts of the world, where rain almost never falls, people are learning to catch those drops using giant nets, like spider webs stretched across the sky. The tiny water drops floating in the air get caught in the net, join together into bigger drops, and then into a bucket below. Clean water, caught right out of the sky!

How to catch a cloud? is a book full of drawings, stories, and discoveries about all the ways— big and small, ancient and new—that living things have learned to catch water from the air. Because water belongs to all. And sometimes, the sky is more generous than we think.

The book, designed by Lungomare, explores the theme of capturing something elusive through its visual language. A real net is stretched across the front and back covers, creating a physical structure that catches the drops and clouds depicted underneath. For this purpose, a material commonly used in book production was chosen, although it is usually hidden and never visible from the outside. The drawings by the artist Ingrid Hora are embossed onto the cover.

For the drawings, the artist uses felt-tip pens in three colours: bright blue, salmon pink, and black. The book is a notebook filled with gestures, actions, objects, and ideas by Ingrid Hora on how clean water could be collected directly from the sky.