Cloud II (Aura/Good Thoughts) is a positive update of the Cloud text installation. The original Cloud employed mundane bits of conversations and writing in copper blackletter texts. Here, expressions of positive emotions from my personal correspondence and dialogues appear in colorful holographic sheet plastic and glitter foil-covered board. These affirmations and thank-yous are hung from parts of hula hoops, whose arcs create rainbow shapes.

Installation view at Portraiture: Inside Out at Seton Hall University's Walsh Gallery, South Orange, NJ.

Images

• Cloud II (Aura / Good Thoughts), 2011, holographic plastic, glitter foil-covered board, elastic, hula hoops, holographic lacing, gallery lights outfitted with yellow and blue bulbs, 70 x 24 x 36 inches / 177 x 61 x 92 cm
• Aura #1-3, 2011, holographic plastic on fluorescent poster board, 16 x 20 inches / 40.6 x 50.8 cm ea.
• Aura #4-5, 2011, holographic plastic on foil laminated board, 24 x 20 inches / 50.8 x 70 cm ea.
• Aura #6, 2011, holographic plastic on fluorescent poster board, 24 x 20 inches / 50.8 x 70 cm
• Aura #7, 2011, adhesive glitter foil on board on holographic board, 24 x 20 inches / 50.8 x 70 cm