I completed my MPhil at The Royal College of Art, London, in the summer of 2004. My thesis, Cloud: A Schematic of Appearance, examined cloud as a case study for seeing and believing. I analyzed the relationship between the imagination and visual experience, the use of cloud as a visual device, and, primarily, the modes and methods employed in the representation of both cloud and the ideas or phenomena that have cloud as their model. I first looked at some of the ways in which clouds and the sky have been, and are currently understood. Then, I analysed the relationship of cloud with, and interruption of the pictorial order, the ideas that make use of its figure, and the various methods applied in its representation. Finally, I explored the use of cloud as a visual analogy for states of divine rapture and death, and its adoptive form as the proof of a spirit presence.
My practical research took the form of a collection of books, drawings, sculptures, animations and photographs, some of which are included in the following pages.
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Out of Thin Air
dehumidifier, hose, ink, water
dimensions variable
April 2003
Out of Thin Air makes use of a mechanical device to produce a trace or proof of the moisture in the air. The dehumidifier's reservoir is filled with an ink solution up to the level of the overflow. It is then switched on. Over time, depending on the humidity of the air, a dark ink stain appears and works its way across the floor, mapping its uneven surface and leaving tide marks as it dries.
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