This is an artwork called Cloud: Metéoros, by husband and wife team Lucy and Jorge Orta. It’s comprised of two cloud-like structures, suspended from the roof of St. Pancras International station by wires. When I read about this sculpture I knew that I had to visit and photograph it before too long.

Facing the end of the Eurostar platforms, the cloud forms are laden with what seem like travellers who have been on a similar train journey.

The awfully nice staff at the Searcy’s champagne bar let me shoot from a decent angle in their establishment, but I could never get the angle I wanted: straight on. For this, I think I would need to be on the Eurostar platforms themselves. And to do that? Maybe there’s another trip to Paris, Brussels or Lille on the cards…