Lawrence Malstaf has created, with his Nemo Observatorium, a circular chamber of PVC and five fans in which a spectator can sit in the eye of a storm – a storm of swirling styrofoam beads that actually produces a calming, almost meditative, effect. Your ears listen to the swoosh and your eyes pick out patterns within the eddying mass of white. You’d think that the styrofoam would get all in your eyes and hair, but he has positioned the fans at just the proper angles and speed in order to avoid the chance of it blowing bits around randomly. You really are the lone observer untouched by the surrounding chaos.
(thanks to Lawrence Malstaf)