British artist Tacita Dean started to draw clouds after moving from Berlin to Los Angeles a decade ago. “LA made clouds a reality for me. I became a sky-watcher,” she says over the phone from Berlin, where she now spends half her time. “The clouds were so different from British clouds. They’re about wind and not about rain. They kept the most incredible light.” She began using white chalk on blackboard to draw the forms as they moved across the sky.
In the years since,…