MOONLIT CLOUDS
Printed Silk 264 x 1200 x 1200 in (670.56 x 3048.0 x 3048.0 cm)
2018
Location: Miami, FL | Commissioned by Pulse Art Fair For 2018 Pulse Projects Special Commission Photo Credit: Kerry McLaney
Miya Ando’s Moonlit Clouds, commissioned as a PROJECTS Special Artist Commission for PULSE Art Fair in Miami Beach, was a monumental, site-specific installation suspended within the entrance tent at Indian Beach Park. Composed of long silk panels printed with photographs of the Miami sky taken by Ando, the work formed a corridor of drifting cloud imagery. As the fabric shifted in the ocean breeze, it created a luminous, immersive environment of shadow and motion—an ephemeral canopy that enveloped visitors as they transitioned into the fair.
As a diasporic artist, Ando brings together environmental awareness, cultural hybridity, and a poetics of impermanence. Moonlit Clouds introduced stillness and attentiveness into a setting often defined by spectacle and velocity. It asked viewers not to consume, but to pause—to register light, breath, movement, and sky.
Rather than centering on fixed form or material weight, the installation participated in a broader movement within contemporary art that emphasizes experiential, affective space. It aligned with practices that treat perception and atmosphere as material, creating environments that are not merely seen but felt. In this way, Ando’s work offered an architecture of passage rather than monument, presence rather than object.
Moonlit Clouds reoriented the fair’s threshold into a moment of quiet wonder—inviting the viewer into a slower, more contemplative register of time and attention.