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With the recent spate of decent weather in London, you may be wondering where all the clouds have gone.
The answer: Covent Garden Market.
Los Angeles-based artists, Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III — known together as FriendsWithYou — have just strung up 40 inflatable cartoon clouds from the rafters of the Apple Market.
Known as Little Cloud World, the installation is said to be a "portal into a happy place where visitors from across the globe are invited to explore, spread kindness and feel compassion for people and the planet". (Although is it me, or if you look at them for more than 30 seconds at a time, they begin to feel menacing...?)
Visitors are also invited on a 'happy trail' around the market area, to discover a few other clouds, including an extra big, extra happy one squeezed in between the columns on the North Piazza.
Little Cloud World is free to enjoy, and on show until sometime in October 2024. This isn't the first time the friendly clouds have taken flight; they've already shown up at places including Shibuya in Japan, and at New York City's famous Thanksgiving Day Parade.
But surely no cloud feels more at home than when it's in London.
Little Cloud World, Covent Garden Apple Market, until October 2024, free
