A cloud collector in The Weather Project

Nora Brown
Posted 8/21/12

Ever since my husband and I moved into our farmhouse in Beach Lake, PA in 2006, I have dreamed of connecting to the community through my life experience in the arts as dancer, actor, writer. For The …

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A cloud collector in The Weather Project

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Ever since my husband and I moved into our farmhouse in Beach Lake, PA in 2006, I have dreamed of connecting to the community through my life experience in the arts as dancer, actor, writer. For The Weather Project, Tannis Kowalchuk, artist director of NACL, contacted me to create a cloud character with magical powers of destruction and creation, like the Furies in Greek mythology. My character’s name is Nimbula, a Cloud Collector, member of the Cloud Collectors’ Local 12743. My sister cloud is Queen Cumulus, played by Cass Collins. We are goddesses of Justice and Revenge, and I believe we are great revelers as well.

I see clouds as brethren, ancestors, holding the future as they have since the beginning of time. All animal souls are there: birds, insects, fish, reptiles. Beware. Clouds cover our planet. They have witnessed everything and constantly transform and morph, with help from ashes of all life, communicating warnings, praise, joy and disaster. They love to keep us guessing.

Climate/Weather rule our lives. Just think: the arts, sports and social events, travel, scientific research and experimentation. We’d better look up.

That clouds can morph, transform into any shape or size with devastating possibilities in every moment means that we had better watch them and pay attention to what we are doing to help the destruction of our planet. The clouds are watching and warning.

The developing severity of the weather; mega storms, tsunamis, tornados, flooding, and drought over our precious earth, are not only manifestations of human greed, negligence and lack of accountability, but prophetic warnings. In the face of our planet’s delicate beauty, we must act now and continue that as a way of life, developing a new way of living through art, singing, dancing, weaving, playing music, writing, carpentry and many ways of self expression and care for others.

It is my belief that clouds are showing us what is happening all the time; now and in the future. We can align these findings with the science available and take action: use less.

The Cloud Collectors are part of The Weather Project extravaganza along with many collaborators: musicians, stilters, dancers, actors, visual artists, puppeteers, sound painters.

I look forward to seeing you at The Weather Project mega-event on August 9 at the Yulan Ball Park. The Clouds are watching.

[Nora Brown is a resident of Beach Lake, PA]

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