I began photographing the sky in 2017 on trips around the US in a small plane. The sky was showing off — bold, playful and unapologetic. I was privileged to be there.
The images are close-up, abstract, and a study of light, color, and texture — a daily play of color and movement that belongs to all and to no one. The work continues to evolve and inform itself. I find out what it needs as I follow its prompt.
"Raquel’s work evokes a feeling of transcendence. As if she is capturing the spirit of the sky. These images are a perfect expression of light, ether, air. They are expansive and intimate, drawing one into the vast stillness within."
- Reiko Gomez, Feng Shui Interior Designer
“A cloud is only water but arranged like no other water on earth - billions of minuscule droplets that are packed into every cubic foot of cloud. Throwing reflected light of their disordered surfaces in all directions. Collectively making the cloud opaque
In a way each cloud is an illusion, a conspiracy of liquid masquerading as a floating solid object
To tune into the clouds is to slow down. It's a moment of meteorological meditation and the celebrated transcendence of cloud spotting. How it connects us to the weather, the atmosphere, to one another. We are part of the air, we don’t live beneath the sky, we live within the sky.” - Excerpts from the Daily Podcast Cloud Appreciation Society