Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Light - forced visibility??

Once daylight vanishes, a large number of artificial lighting appears - street lights, room lights, directional signage, commercial signage, ambient lighting, focussed lighting, flood lighting etc etc.
All these forms of light in some way or the other lead you to a realm of forced visibility. During the day, when there is sunlight, you view what is vibile in your field of vision. You move around, you are free to view what your mind wants to view. Your vision is probably restricted to the extent of your ability to see.

Once night falls, darkness arises. The mysterious darkness. Light is the energy that makes all forms visible - living/non living/solid/liquid/dense gases. In the darkness, the artificial light - it restricts your visibility - more like CONTROL your visibility. You are forced to see only that reflects the light.

There is a sense of ambiguity in the darkness / semi darkness.
The acitivity patterns are around the lit portions.
Light creates stronger focus points around a region.



What you see and what you don't see.. two views of the same locale with different lighting..

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