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By perfecting the atmosphere in a room, Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde makes clouds appear from thin air within a room.
In what seems like Photoshop or magic, Smilde carefully regulates the humidity, temperature and light of a space—and when the moment is right, he summons the cloud using a fog machine.
The cottony cloud only lasts a few moments for it to be captured on film, and suspends in the middle of the room just before it collapses—evoking a sense of surrealism and ephemerality of nature.
“It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart,” Smilde told because im addicted in an email. “It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart. It’s about the potential of the idea, but in the end it will never function.
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By perfecting the atmosphere in a room, Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde makes clouds appear from thin air within a room.
In what seems like Photoshop or magic, Smilde carefully regulates the humidity, temperature and light of a space—and when the moment is right, he summons the cloud using a fog machine.
The cottony cloud only lasts a few moments for it to be captured on film, and suspends in the middle of the room just before it collapses—evoking a sense of surrealism and ephemerality of nature.
“It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart,” Smilde told because im addicted in an email. “It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart. It’s about the potential of the idea, but in the end it will never function.
[via Berndnaut Smilde]