Blog #5 - The Rain Room

My best friend and I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art solely for the purpose of seeing the rain room exhibit. It’s in a big black room with a giant panel overhead that drips water down as if it’s raining, but the panel has sensors that let it know when people step underneath and it will stop pouring water right where you are standing. Standing in the middle is an incredible experience to be surrounded by pouring rain, but not be effected by it. In the room there is one singular bright light on the far wall that is is high up and angeled downward as if to represent the sun shining through the pouring rain. It is the only light source in the room and is so powerful and bright that it fills the whole space, but casts shadows to make the room look like there is a natural light source. My friend snapped this picture of me in the middle of the room standing in front of the lamp. I am completely sillouhetted by the single intense lamp and it’s beautiful how it makes the rain around me look like glittering sequins falling from the sky.