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Chris Drury (British, 1948 - )
Cloud Chamber for the Trees and Sky, 2003
Stone, wood, turf
0in x 0in x 12ft 0in (0cm x 0cm x 3m 65.8cm)
Commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Art with funds from the North Carolina Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest), 2003
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Drury chose a wooded area of the Museum Park as the site for one of his cloud chambers. This permanent structure is approximately twelve feet in diameter and is built of dry stone. Notched logs make up an octagonal roof that is covered with turf and groundcover. The walls of the building are white cement. The structure has a wooden door and three benches that are attached to the interior walls. There is a small aperture about the size of a quarter in the middle of the roof. The width of this aperture can be changed to allow more or less light to pass through. When the door is closed, only scattered light from the sky and reflected light from the trees travels through the aperture into the chamber. The reflection of these rays off the white surface forms a clear, inverted image. Clouds and sky appear on the floor of the room and trees appear upside down on the walls.
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