Clouds symbolize a message. A message to purity, to change, to keep going.
The idea comes from my childhood dream- to see a cloud! The city I grew up with was polluted; the sky I remember is grey. When I was a kid I would draw a blue cloud with white sky as the background of my painting. One day I eventually saw the white cloud on a blue sky, I stared at the sky for a long, long time. The sky went on forever and the skies had lovely clouds, they moved down, they were long, short, fat, skinny and clear.
That was the most beautiful sky - as a matter of fact there were lots of starts at night. It was so beautiful that I would never forget.
I really wanted to create something that would act as a symbol for a cloud, not trying to realistically represent a cloud, I thought about my drawings as a child and how I thought that stars lived inside the clouds. During the nighttime, the clouds would go to sleep and reveal the stars. That's how I created this work. So this is a piece representing a child's dream, and imagination. It is a kind of fantasy and a part of happiness.
When I look up, the cloud is always there for me, like an old friend. Especially when traveling around, I find life itself is transient and always with sudden changes. Just like the clouds, stars are symbols of the transience of life. As you look up the sky, you know all you have is now; nothing stays.
Putting mirrored acrylic in the cloud makes this piece actually implode on itself. You see infinite stars reflecting through the mirrors. If you look at "I have a cloud in my room", it reflects your eye and you become involved with the piece when you identify yourself within it. This activation only happens when you get up close and interact with the piece, making this piece very much about the present and ephemeral "now". Just like a cloud, it always changing, and never stops.
This piece looks like an easy thing to do. It is actually complex; I had to pick the materials best suited to the idea I was trying to convey as well as trying to understand the emotional relationship between viewer and material. Building the inside and outside separately, yet as one, to make this piece is also a concept and practice that I can learn while in the process of making.
When you confront the piece like " have a cloud in my room" and it will bring vou a visual experience that the aspect of beauty for what is it is present, and take you to a playful wonder world.