Brilliant Cloud is a series of Giclee prints produced by boredomresearch's for their solo exhibition at [DAM]Cologne (2011) and the Millais Off-Site Space, Southampton (2010).

The abstractions of computation and influence of Eastern Art forms combine, to give the work a unique poetic presence. This reflects and plays with ambiguities which both distinguish and unify many natural forms. Specifically, Brilliant Cloud explores the contradiction of solid geological structures within a vapourific cloudlike formation. Hundreds of coloured bands interact with a vibrant intensity and presence like cross-sections from giant agate.

From a distance the work appears as a collection of islands viewed from above while at the same time floating weightlessly in a composition deeply reminiscent of Japanese stylised clouds. A closer inspection reveals the complex mass of concentric circles - fluid, active, dynamic. Like the countless water droplets that combine to make clouds these appear to have been caught in motion, now fixed solid. The imagination is constantly dislodged from either one or other of these opposing fictions freeing itself to explore the poetic space in-between.

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Brilliant Cloud Image documentation