{"id":183,"date":"2021-02-02T01:15:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T01:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2021-03-19T21:28:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T21:28:49","slug":"cirrus-clouds","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/cirrus-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirrus Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Artist Susan Aurand<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/aurands.CirrusCloudsClosedView2.05-1024x676.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/aurands.CirrusCloudsClosedView2.05-1024x676.jpg\" 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https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/CirrusCloudsBookPageofText.aurands_04-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">To see a larger image move the cursor over the thumbnail image until you see the little hand, then click.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"584\" height=\"62\" data=\"http:\/\/getembedplus.com\/embedplus.swf\" id=\"ep50406\">\r<param value=\"http:\/\/getembedplus.com\/embedplus.swf\" name=\"movie\" \/>\r<param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\" \/>\r<param value=\"transparent\" name=\"wmode\" \/>\r<param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\" \/>\r<param value=\"true\" name=\"allowFullScreen\" \/>\r<param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"ytid=e5uY3y5o7C0&#038;height=30&#038;width=584&#038;react=1&#038;sweetspot=1&#038;&amp;rs=w\" \/>\r<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"cantembedplus\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"584\" height=\"30\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e5uY3y5o7C0?fs=1&#038;\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\r<\/object>\n<\/div><figcaption><br>Artist Susan Aurand shows us her artist book about Cirrus Clouds and explains their role in climate change..<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artist Statement:<\/strong>   Cirrus clouds are unique among clouds, being the highest, whitest, fastest moving, and least understood type of cloud. Most clouds are made of water droplets, but cirrus clouds are composed of ice crystals, made by water vapor super-cooling directly into ice. Their ice nature makes them iridescent. Cirrus clouds form around particles of specific minerals and metals, rather than on organic particles. Thus they are an index to human-caused industrial pollution from fossil fuels in the upper atmosphere. Last, unlike other clouds which generally shade and cool the earth, cirrus clouds may hold in the heat that would otherwise escape out of the atmosphere. In the future, it may be possible to regulate the earth&#8217;s temperature by regulating cirrus clouds. I was fascinated to learn about them because of their extraordinarily beautiful delicate and varied forms, like wisps of hair across the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Size:<\/strong>  The closed book is 5&#8243; tall, 11&#8243; long, and 1&#8243; deep. Open it displays as 12&#8243; high, 33&#8243; long, and 6&#8243; deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong>  Book board, Rives BFK paper, mulberry paper, vellum paper, and fabric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Book Structure:<\/strong>  flag book on an accordion fold spine.  An arched support is contained in a pocket on the inside of the back cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Production Printing Method: <\/strong> The imagery was created by monoprinting cloud forms on Rives BFK. The text is inkjet printed on vellum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Edition:<\/strong> Unique<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Year Created:<\/strong> 2020    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-image-fill\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-1024x682.jpg);background-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/sciencestories\/files\/2021\/02\/Aurand.SusanArtistinstudio_shot_2019-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan Aurand is a Member of the Faculty Emeritus at The Evergreen State College where she taught interdisciplinary art\/science programs for many years.  She lives in Olympia, WA. She is primarily a painter, working in oils, but also makes artist books, collages, and small sculptures. Her work centers on the natural world, in particular, the ongoing transformation of matter over time and the beauty of nature as an opening to transcendence.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Susan Aurand:  e-mail:  aurands@gmail.com; website:  <a href=\"http:\/\/susanaurand.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/susanaurand.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Susan Aurand Artist Statement: Cirrus clouds are unique among clouds, being the highest, whitest, fastest moving, and least understood type of cloud. 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