Lighting Observation
1) DATE-TIME-LOCATION: Wednesday night in my dorm room.
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: A soft yellow glow emitted from the string lights hung across the western wall of my room and the stark gleam of the IPad’s white screen on my face.
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: This past Wednesday night my friend and I were in my room discussing classes and watching movies. I really believe that I am allergic to the generic, fluorescent light fixture that comes mounted to the ceiling of each university dorm room; I prefer instead to light my room with a thirty-two bulb set of string lights. They are bright enough to illuminate each corner of the room but just soft enough to put you in a meditative mood. My friend turned to me, the high points of her face washed in a comfy yellow haze as if she had applied a sunflower pigmented blush to her high cheekbones. She demanded that I draw a portrait of her on her IPad using the new Apple Pen she recently gifted herself. As I scribbled on the tablet, she called attention to the white glow that the IPad cast upon the T-zone of my face. As I glanced over to the mirror to witness this lighting moment for myself, she remarked that this scene looked very much like a back to school advertisement. We laughed.