Nimbus D’ Aspremont by Berndnaut Smilde, part of at Aspremont-Lynden Castle, Lanaken, Belgium, from 3 June to 30 September
FORGET about planetary-scale geoengineering: seeding clouds indoors is taking the world by storm.
To achieve this feat of ephemeral sculpture, Dutch artist mists water in the air with a plant spray bottle, releases a burst of “fog” – actually a vaporised glycol-based compound – from a smoke machine, and employs backlighting to show off the resulting cloud to perfection.
“The moisture sticks to the smoke and makes the smoke heavier, otherwise it would just rise and fall apart,” Smilde says. The effect works best in a…
