CloudForm 02.09 installed at The Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

Hundreds of pieces of folded and sewn paper

CloudForm presents the viewer with a visual array that plays with our understanding and perception of a phenomena in our natural world, the cloud. From the ground, we see clouds as light fluffy objects that dance across a blue sky, or the menacing dark grey volumes that indicate a storm. This long distance aerial view does not begin to reveal to us what a cloud is actually composed of, ice crystals and water droplets. CloudForm presents this micro view of the cloud structure, crystalline droplets being played upon by light. The light plays with the natural opacity of the velum from which the droplets are constructed, creating layers upon layers of cast shadows.