Cloud Benches Lyme Regis

 Cloud Benches installed in Lyme Regis for the summer exhibition along with Ripple.

Cloudbenches Finished

The Cloudbenches are finished and now I am starting the musical sound pieces based on the Gayageum, These will have Haiku especially produced by Roselle Angwin for the pieces, a big thank you to Roselle, I will post pictures of these over the ensuing weeks.  Let's not forget the Fairfax:Green gig this saturday as well poster below.

Parhelion

Yesterday was the private view of the work at West Coker. Three very lovely girls were helping Simon with car parking and the like, I asked them to have a lie on the cloud bench, this first young lady did and she exclaimed she could see a rainbow,

we all looked up and there wasn't a rainbow in site just a beautiful sunny evening with a scattering of clouds, she insisted she could see a rainbow, so after cajoling I lay on the bench and blow me down if I could see the fragment of a rainbow amongst the cloud base, blimey you are right I exclaimed and we tried to figure out how this might be in a sky with no hint of rain. One of the girls muttered something about rain droplets in the sky, or ice crystals.

Later more people came to lie on the cloud bench which was proving to be very popular, I got talking to a woman as she was waiting and she said, " did you see the Parhelion tonight" of course I had to ask her what a Parhelion was, and very basically it is ice crystals in the autumn cooling sky that gets hit by the sun and produces a spectrum usually in pairs.

Of course I was able to exclaim "yes, you bet" and in a rather over excited schoolboy fashion I blathered on about how we saw it, I then of course went off to find the three young woman and told them of their find. Naturally they were delighted to hear of such a phenomena and that they had seen it.

There are many reasons why everyone should own a 'cloud bench' anyway, but I feel that this has strengthened my position and expect the commissions to rush in: so please email me at michaelfairfax@eclipse.co.uk with your orders.

the wikipedia definition of a Parhelion is:

A 120° parhelion (plural: 120° parhelia) is a relatively rare halo, an optical phenomenon occasionally appearing along with very bright sun dogs (also called parhelia) as ice crystal-saturatedcirrus clouds fill the atmosphere. The 120° parhelia are named for appearing in pair on the parhelic circle ±120° from the sun.^[1]

Rosliston Cloud Benches

They came from the sky

two clouds

cirrus and cumulus

The boys came to install

they lay

They spotted cirrus and cumulus

The boys dug out the turf

to lay the benches

The boys are happy with their handiwork

The boys left

a good job done

Cirrus and Cumulus

have found their sacred ground

So please now visit Rosliston Forestry Centre

lie on the cloud benches and watch

the clouds scudding by.

You can also watch the stars at night.

michael