landscape architecture and public art
PROJECT TYPE: Public Art Installation
LOCATION: Houston, Texas
SERVICES PROVIDED: Concept development, Art Direction, Studio fabrication and install, graphic design, radical cartography, public programming
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
Color Clouds is a site specific public art installation that celebrates the unique skyscape over Houston. Made of polychrome mesh, the installation is inspired by the changing colors of storm clouds in Houston during the summer.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Color Clouds is part of my continuing development of immersive, colorful landscape spaces that reference local phenomena. I'm astonished by the deep blue that builds on the underside of thunderhead clouds as storms push over the city from the Gulf of Mexico. Late afternoon sunlight catches the upper wisps of these clouds and they reflect creamy pink and bright purple tones. As a public project, the installation serves as a gateway into the experience of cloudgazing in the city. #HouClouds