Argentinean architect Ciro Najle, got the inspiration for his woolly sculpture after spending three years collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to develop improved methods of fog collection - a means of capturing water in arid locations. Based in Chile’s Atacama desert, the team developed fog nets with complex, three-dimensional textile forms that would provide irrigation intended to transform the arid landscape for agricultural and research purposes. Known as the Machinic Laboratory or Mlab, the project was hosted at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in Valparaiso, Chile.Translating this complexity into cloud art involved a serious amount of mathematics. The sculpture comprises crocheted squares, each of which has an individual pattern modelled by Najle, who generated 1664 different diagrams pinpointing the intersections of the woollen strands, the crochet knots that are key to its structure. It took a team of nearly 40 crochet craftswomen in Merlo, Buenos Aires, Argentina just over a week to make the panels, which were then sewn together into larger sections to form the glorious whole.
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