The installation presents itself as a small forest whose trunks are made of columns of mist—a mist garden—that unfold upwards to evoke a canopy. Its atmosphere, maintained in a permanent chiaroscuro, is slightly misty. Thin, changing blades of light create oblique luminous planes that reveal the internal movement of the mists. Several hyper-directional loudspeakers, creating acoustic beams as delimited as those of light beams, emit a very slight murmur resulting from the transposition of the movement of the mists into sound waves when they are disturbed by the passage of visitors. At irregular intervals, other sound waves are heard, very powerful and of very low frequency. These waves transcribe the occurrence of earthquakes on the surface of the globe, as detected by the planet’s seismological institutes and retransmitted in real time via the internet. The amplitude and frequency of these low-pitched waves are defined by the magnitude and distance between the earthquake epicenters and the installation location. The air displacements generated by these infrasounds locally disrupt the balance of the fog, creating brief oscillations that propagate in the fog for several seconds, agitating the trunks of the fog trees and creating changing patterns in the planes defined by the blades of light.

A dialogue of vibrations and tremors on a human scale is thus established between the invisible architecture of the winds, the forest of evanescent mists and the massive tectonic plates. The total intertwining of geological, atmospheric and biological phenomena and times becomes tangible, perceived through the movement of bodies, the humidity in the lungs, the contact of air on the skin, the vibration of light and the pressure in our ears. Immersed in the clouds, the lights and sounds that agitate the mist, the visitor becomes aware of all the rhythms of the world and synchronizes his inner trembling with them.