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Title
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Gathering Cloud
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Artist
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Anja Ulfeldt
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Collaborators
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Art+Fog Collective: Jennifer Parker, Peter Weiss-Penzias
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Date
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2024
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Description
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A public sculpture and working fog catcher made of eight amorphous, cloud-like rings, each strung with copper mesh that weathers to a sky-blue color. Coastal fog condenses on the mesh, and the water drips into the soil below to nourish the surrounding wetland plantings. The sculpture was made by artist Anja Ulfeldt for UC Santa Cruz's Art+Fog Collective, and microbiologist and environmental toxicologist Peter Weiss-Penzias tested the water it gathered. It was installed in December 2024 in the marshlands around Younger Lagoon, just west of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, as part of restoration efforts there.
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Artwork Type
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Public Art
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Sculpture
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Environmental Art
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Materiality
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Metal
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Climate & Ecology Themes
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Fog and Microclimate
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Water and Drought
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Restoration and Regeneration
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Concepts
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More-than-Human Relations
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Ecological Domain / Habitat
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Coastal Wetlands / Salt Marsh
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Coastal Bluff
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Methods & Approaches
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Art and Science Collaboration
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Restoration / Ecological Intervention
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Audience / Engagement Type
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Public / General Audience
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Location
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Younger Lagoon wetlands, west of the Seymour Marine Discovery Center, 100 McAllister Way, Santa Cruz, California
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Geographic Scope
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Site-Specific / Single Site
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Rights
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Rights held by artist or creator
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Publisher
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UC Santa Cruz, OpenLab Collaborative Research Center
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Discipline / Field
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Arts & Design
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Natural Sciences
