Errant Rain Cloud (2018)

Gordon Hicks , Germaine Koh

7191 Granville Ave

Area: City Centre
Location: Inside Minoru Aquatic Centre in main natatorium.

Materials: Fibreglass, galvanized steel, mechanical elements, electronic controller LED lighting

Program: Civic
Ownership: Civic
Sponsored By: City of Richmond

Description of Work

Suspended sculpture incorporating fibreglass, galvanized steel, mechanical elements, electronic controller LED lighting

Artist Statement

"Errant Rain Cloud" is a responsive artwork that has, within it, mechanisms that respond to the environment of the Aquatic Centre to whimsically reproduce the atmospheric water cycle. Once or twice a day (depending on the amount of activity in the pool) a brief and gentle shower falls from

the cloud into the leisure pool. The natural water cycle is powered by the sun, while the Aquatic Centre’s interior “climate” is driven by the interaction of humans and the building’s environmental systems: humidity is produced as visitors splash in the heated water. Errant Rain Cloud chills this moist air to produce water, much like the building’s dehumidification systems — and like clouds found in the sky.