Everyday: 4/21/15

Polychromatic Cloud

I found a new use for my opalescent tissue paper: Cloud. The previous piece using this material was The Mystery of Sprites and Jets. I don't think of this as a bettering of this idea - it is more like a piece in conversation with my other atmospheric pieces (a new 'body of work' or group is developing along this). The photos do not really do it justice, there is a lot more amazing color play in the reflections and projections (onto the wall behind the paper) that are hard to document) - it also is really light and airy, so it moves when you walk past it.
This came from my interest in an image of a polychromatic cloud and my want to make a piece with this material for the upcoming exhibition with Erica Moore called Polaris.

Cloud (tissue paper, rare earth magnets, and screws) 2010

(detail)

Kay Ryan
Cloud
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A blue stain
creeps across
the deep pile
of the evergreens.
From inside the
forest it seems
like an interior
matter, something
wholly to do
with trees, a color
passed from one
to another, a
requirement
to which they
submit unflinchingly
like soldiers or
brave people
getting older.
Then the sun
comes back and
it's totally over.