Catching Clouds is a project about creativity and the limits that knowledge, logic and convention place on our capacity to imagine.

The project was developed with a group of children between the ages of ten and twelve, beginning with an apparently simple proposition: to catch clouds from the sky.

Faced with an impossible task, their first response was to rely on what they had learned: clouds cannot be caught. This certainty became the starting point of the project. The aim was not to find a possible solution, but rather to momentarily suspend the rules of what is possible.

When the need to be reasonable disappears, another territory emerges. Imagining, playing, making mistakes, exaggerating and embracing the absurd cease to be obstacles and become tools for creation.

The children then began to develop their own methods: catching clouds with their feet, trapping them with ropes, reaching them with poles, or blowing bursts of air and bringing them back like soap bubbles. Each solution created its own logic within something that had initially seemed impossible.

The proposals were eventually translated into drawings, texts and small interventions made on CD cases, which became both the physical support and the container for each idea.

Catching Clouds approaches creativity as an exercise in displacement: momentarily leaving behind what we know in order to allow what we can still imagine to emerge.

Perhaps creation begins precisely there: when we stop asking whether something is possible and begin asking how it might become so.

Jordi Urbón