Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde creates strikingly beautiful, fluffy clouds indoors. These luminous, ephemeral ghosts of vapor float through interior spaces for a few fleeting moments before literally vanishing into “thin” air. Smilde has received a lot of press for these works, but he has an extensive body of very interesting work beyond the “cloud projects,” which you can see on his website, which is linked below, along with a number of articles about the cloud works.
Here is a nice video where Smilde discusses his clouds and you can see them in motion:
For more on Smilde and the cloud projects, see:
- Berndnaut Smilde website
- Daily Mail: Meet the man who can control the weather: Berndnaut Smilde really does have his head in the clouds
- Washington Post: Artist Berndnaut Smilde creates indoor clouds
- Slate: Capturing the Elusive Indoor Cloud
- Yatzer: How To Make Clouds Indoors: Nimbus By Berndnaut Smilde
- Time: Best Inventions of the Year 2012: Indoor Clouds