Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004)
Fluorescent lights, fixtures, filters, monofilament and clothespins
Dimensions variable
2004

This work re-creates the effect of a passing cloud in Emily Dickinson’s backyard in Amherst, Massachusetts. The bank of three types of fluorescent lamps generates a simulation of the daylight, and the hanging filters shift the color and intensity of the sunlight to replicate the shadow cast by a cloud. The “passing of the cloud” is activated by the viewer walking around the sculpture, out of the daylight into the shadow and then back into the daylight again.