Indoor Clouds

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Best Inventions of the Year 2012

Indoor Clouds

室內雲

By TIME Staff  Nov. 01, 2012

That’s not Photoshop. The Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has developed a way to create a small, perfect white cloud in the middle of a room. It requires meticulous planning: the temperature, humidity and lighting all have to be just so. Once everything is ready, Smilde summons the cloud out of the air using a fog machine. It lasts only moments, but the effect is dramatic and strangely moving. It evokes both the surrealism of Magritte and the classical beauty of the old masters while reminding us of the ephemerality of art and nature.

這可不是Photoshop，這是荷蘭藝術家Berndnaut Smilde想出的點子，能夠在室內製造一朵小巧純白的雲。而這需要拿捏得恰到好處：溫度、溼度、光線，都必須控制得剛剛好。等到一切就緒後，Smilde就用製霧機，憑空召喚出雲了。雖然這朵雲稍縱即逝，但帶來的效果卻十分驚人、也莫名地觸動人心。它激起了馬格利特式的超現實主義，也引出了老一代的古典美，但同時也提醒我們藝術與自然短暫的生命。