Molecular Clouds
By: Daksha Patel
Commissioned by: Light Up The North Illumine
CREATIVE TEAM:
George Harris – Producer
Chris Ball – Creative Technologist
James Hamilton – Sound Artist
Andrew Crofts – Technical Consultant
This interactive projection reveals invisible greenhouse gases as ephemeral and colourful molecular forms. It invites audiences to reach out and ‘touch’ them, thereby removing them from the atmosphere. Molecular Clouds aims to give audiences a sense of agency as they engage playfully and collectively with climate change themes.
The work evokes the natural world through beautiful images of trees and the sun accompanied by the sounds of nightingales, running water, cello and piano. The science of climate change is represented through intricate and mesmerising data-map visualisations, which can simply be seen as abstract shapes or as symbolising vital information.