“They have heard that you, O Lord, are in the midst of this people; for you, O Lord, are seen face to face, and your cloud stands over them and you go in front of them, in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.”
Berndnaut Smilde (Dutch, 1978–), Nimbus II, 2012, lambda print.
For Nimbus II, he used a smoke machine, combined with moisture and dramatic lighting to create a hovering indoor cloud in the empty setting of a sixteenth-century chapel in Hoorn, a small town in Holland.
Bible Passage: Numbers 9:15 - 33:56
Key Extracts: Numbers 9:15 - 16:50 and Numbers 19 - 27 and Numbers 31 - 33
My Big Story Bible: Pages 54 - 58