After a one-year hiatus for the Winter Olympic Games, Illuminate Yaletown returned to Vancouver’s heritage quarter streets for two nights in February 2011. Twenty-one local artists took part, creating a stunning visual landscape for people to explore.

We were excited to be part of the festival and created Sound Clouds, a new installation inspired by the infamously wet, west coast weather. Our idea was to build something that would produce a positive reaction to clouds, since they are often so very disliked here in Vancouver due to their association with the almost constant winter rain. What we came up with was a set of eight faceted and almost translucent cloud structures with LED lights inside. We placed them around Yaletown Park to transform the space into a playscape where people could interact with clouds in a whole new way.