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(cloudwaterline) Horizon by Katy Stone
Photo CreditCourtesy GSA Archives
(cloudwaterline) Horizon
Photo CreditCourtesy GSA Archives

(cloudwaterline) Horizon

Artist
Year2011
Classification sculpture
Medium laser-cut and hand-painted aluminum
DimensionsMax: 120 x 780 x 4 in. (304.8 x 1981.2 x 10.2 cm)
Credits Commissioned through the Art in Architecture Program
Fine Arts Collection
U.S. General Services Administration
Location
  • Katy Stone created cloudwaterline (Horizon) in response to the courthouse architecture and the natural landscape around Jackson, Mississippi.  Comprising more than 300 hand-painted aluminum shapes, the artwork suggests both a vast body of water and a cloud-like formation.  The individual components of cloudwaterline (Horizon) are mounted to the wall at varying depths, so that the artwork functions as both a painting and a sculpture.  It is intended to be experienced in motion and from many different vantage points.  The artwork appears subtly different throughout the day in response to the ever-changing light that filters through the skylight overhead.  Stone designed cloudwaterline (Horizon) to enhance the feeling of lightness and airiness of the lobby space, and to interact with the lines, layers, transparency and opacity of the building.  Stone has said about this artwork: "I was interested in imparting an experience of calmness and expansiveness to visitors entering the courthouse.  I wanted to make an artwork that suggests the forms and the forces of nature, and that reminds us of the larger processes of change and stability that surround us in the world."