The monumental installation Cloud in Wiener Neustadt is on the building ground of a school, where there used to be a nursery, and the students continued its tradition single-handedly by replanting and nurturing all grassy areas. Wakolbinger’s solution was consequently a stainless steelroot-plant-cloud duo, which drills itself into the ground, and grows out of it as an invitation for students to linger. The upper part of the statue rises above this place of social get-togethers, strives towards the sky and opens its cloud-like chalices to the nurturing sources of sun, rain and air.