The paintings respond to the depiction of moonlight breaking through the clouds in Van der Neer’s landscape. For Reguera, clouds are the centerpiece of landscape painting in both the Dutch tradition and traditional Chinese art. Reguera, who has exhibited widely in China, makes the following observation: Chinese artists begin from the concept that a cloud is a medial space between mountain and sky.

Great importance is attached to the concept of the void. The void has its place in the painting through the representation of the condensation of water droplets in the form of a mountain. It’s the idea of shan shui (water-mountain).

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For traditional Chinese painters, a cloud can be a demiurge that establishes those balances, the harmonies they need to create space between, above, and below. Wang Wei, the Tang dynasty poet and painter, spoke of how clouds eventually give way to clarity, a blue aura from which clouds and storms can disappear.