Final Lighting Observation

Posted on April 28, 2026 by previousstudent
  1. April 27th – 10:50pm – California Avenue
  2. Car with its yellow service lights on blinking back and forth, the lights reflecting off the smooth pavement beneath it.
  3. Last night while I was driving home I was thinking about what I could do for my final lighting observation. I had already tackled every cool light in my house, every unique detail in my room and extrapolated a story out of multiple random lights on campus. It has been great to use the exercise to patiently look around and really take in the world around me, finding something special in the smallest things. While doing this, I coincidentally happened to notice the blinking yellow lights on the service car driving in front of me. The light rhythmically blinked from left to right back to left repeatedly. More interestingly, these blinking lights reflected gently off the smooth pavement we were driving on. I realized this was a representation of one of the only qualities of light that I had yet to address in lighting: movement. The consistent and slow movement of this yellow light entranced me. I found myself completely fixated on it as we stopped at a red light, and by the time I turned away from the car and we split ways, I found myself taking one last look at the light. It is interesting how a consistent, rhythmic movement of a light can draw in one’s attention and be so significant, even with something so simple as a yellow light on the back of a car. This light felt so focused, direct, and personalized to me, when all it was doing was blinking. Light has many ways of bringing one in, and it has been really cool to find all the little ways light speaks to me on a day to day basis across the semester.
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