Jerome,
I've been looking at your picture on many occasions and thinking about my response. The picture immediately stopped me in my tracks. I was transfixed by the unusual formation and absence of obviousness. But I was not bored, not in the least! On the contrary, I was asked to linger and I did. This is a piece that allows for musing, clearing one's mind and flexing one's imagination to fill the void.
I like the transverse blocks of sky and grass. The scattered flowers, (or highlights seeming to represent flowers), add some sentiment to what would otherwise risk being an unemotional and unfeeling architectural composition. But then I didn't know for certain what I was looking at. I even studied the skyline and stopped for a while at a spot 3 cm in from the left where I thought maybe there was a building in the far, far distance, even a windmill. Likely it's just another clump of glass, by happenstance a little bolder than the rest. Still, this one odd speck is a stopping point as my eyes wander over the picture and I have to re-interrogate the image to know what it is. The uncertainly is by no means a distraction, rather a gift to us.
My immediate feeling was admiration for the stark simplicity. Yes, I was very troubled by the cloud. At first, I wondered whether, (being humorous), you photographed your OOF cat against the background of a cloud, but that didn't stand up to scrutiny. Then I thought this could be a combination of two pictures, a cat and then the grass and cloud. Finally I wondered whether this really was a cloud and not the beginnings of a twister!
All this was well before any commit from Michael. I never made his critical connections, LOL! I guess I was too lost in reading the image itself to consider, realize or recognize how your unusual picture might fit into to the grander scheme of art history. Now, I'm even more impressed!