Shari Gasper | Video by Owen Connor, Overture Center Blog, October 22, 2025
Artist Spotlight – Mark Weller
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For artist Mark Weller, the click of a camera isn’t just a sound—it’s music to his ears. Most days, his lens is drawn skyward, where he focuses on clouds and how they collide, twist and reshape in endless transformation.
Weller’s current exhibition, “The Luminosity of Time: Witnessing Earth’s Breath,” on display in Overture’s Gallery I, invites viewers to see clouds as a living, breathing subject.
“This is my attempt to capture the fourth dimension: time,” he says.
Using a technique he calls time-stacking, Weller photographs hundreds of images of a single scene over several minutes, then compresses them into a single frame. The stillness of the earth below contrasts with the swirling chaos above—a visual expression of time itself made visible.
“The road doesn’t change. The fence line doesn’t change. The farm in the distance doesn’t change,” he explains. “The clouds are moving—banging into one another. They’ll spin and twirl. At 20,000 feet, they’re going one direction, and at 50,000 feet, they’re going another direction. This is my attempt to actually capture what time looks like via these clouds.”