Photo: Quantum Cloud VIII by Antony Gormley in SF MOMA


Behold “Quantum Cloud VIII” by Antony Gormley.

SF Museum of Modern Art rocks! Looking into this sculpture was almost like looking into the matrix code. Here’s what the nearby plaque said:

Quantum Cloud VIII conceives of the body as a swarm of chaotic energy. A human figure seems to alternately materialize from and disintegrate into the cloud of metal bars. Created between 1999 and 2009, Gormley’s Quantum Cloud series reflects on how the subatomic particles and energy that make up our bodies are integrated with those that compose the universe around us. (The Doris & Donald Fisher Collection at the SF Museum of Modern Art, 1999, Steel.)

Quantum Cloud VIII by Antony Gormley in SF MOMA