"A fascinating synchronicity is revealed when the Japanese word, ukiyo-e (the name given to a genre of Japanese printmaking) is translated into English, for it quite literally means, “pictures of the floating world”. In Penn’s etchings, the “puff” of cloud is obsessively reiterated, but never completely replicated, filtered through different colour spectra, potentially infinite in variation. The Romantics sought out that unstable, fluxing realm, the wild, beautiful nature where the infinite sublime, the continuum might be felt and experienced, where meaning becomes untethered.”

~ Jessie Cohen