Light Observation 2/11
1) February 10th, 10 PM on Fairview Blvd.
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I am driving down the street and it is very dark, except for the streetlights on the main road about a quarter mile ahead. The street is lined with houses, most of which have their lights off by now. There is a large SUV ahead in the center of the road, with its headlights on, and red and white police lights are casting their strobing lights across the fronts of the houses. There are several other police cars casting lights along the road behind the large SUV blocking the road.
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Even with the sound of the traffic on the road, the light gives the impression that one should be dead silent. The neighborhood seems violated, and it seems like trespassing just to live there. The dim yellow in the distance seems welcoming, but the bright white of the LED headlights and the red and white strobes chasing along the facades of the buildings seem to block me from the rest of the world, as if I am forbidden from escaping what feels like imminent danger. It feels as though the whole neighborhood is isolated from the rest of the world and there is no escape.