cloud, crowd

cloud, crowd turns questions and answers into clouds shaped by the sound of each voice, inviting viewers to lie back, ask, respond, and watch their voices mingle in the sky before falling together as rain.

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Abstract

I like playing truth or dare with friends — but really, what I want is truth, and more truth. Each time we ask a question, we open ourselves up to knowing more about others; when we answer a question, we discover something new about ourselves. Questions are like a door, swinging between others and ourselves. Pushed gently open, the air on either side begins to mix. cloud, crowd borrows the silent language of clouds to produce an ephemeral visual trace of the game of asking and responding to questions. In this interactive installation, viewers are invited to lie down and look at the clouds. Each cloud populating the sky grows out of the sound of someone responding to a question, its shape echoing the trembling of the air as the words were spoken. If you want, you can answer a question too, or ask one of your own. Until we meet in the rain — our voices dissolve into one another, the clouds carrying our responses turn into rain, our voices fall together, so we are ready for more questions.

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