The substance has shown up in everything from Nike basketball sneakers to NASA spacecraft, but the in vis­bile water illusion certainly isn’t rocket science. These more energetic particles can knock apart atoms in the material they strike, such as in the astronaut, the metal walls of a spacecraft, habitat, or vehicle, causing sub-atomic particles to shower into the structure. The air in the space had to be kept just cool enough that water vapor (produced by, essentially, a fog machine) couldn’t fully condense into rain, but warm enough that it would condense around dust particles in the air (just like naturally occurring clouds). Smilde’s clouds are engineered through a painstaking process, building up just the right mixture of moisture and dust to create the environment over hours, so that the ephemeral clouds can be documented through photographs. While the pictures we see give the impression of a captive cloud, something you could perhaps buy tickets to see, it’s an illusion: The photos are actually built up over the formation of several different clouds in a given space. This just means that more of its molecules inhabit a given space than with most other gases. The Magritte references immediately caught my eye, but eventually Smilde’s ideas — about the transition in scale from “impossibly large” to “in the room,” as well as his ideas about preserving the clouds through photography, and his larger context about information in the modern age, informed the visual with even more interesting artistic meaning.

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