Lighting observation 2, week 5
Location: Waiting for food at CPK. Thursday, March 3rd. Even later after 11pm (though not yet midnight.)
Objective Description: One of those tv fixtures that are all over campus is on the wall of the Starbucks behind me. It is reflected in the tile wall of CPK.
Subjective Description: The light itself does not conjure up any poetry – it is rather an accessory to something that had already been brewing. My brain, when I saw this light, was totally fried at the end of a long day at the end of a long week. The act of looking up and seeing an unremarkable lighting effect – indeed one that, any other day, I might not bother to notice – set me off on some inner intellectual and emotional tirade. In retrospect, I can only go back to the “you see a light in a tunnel,” question on the last lighting test, because it provides an interesting metaphor to explain the sum of the inner process. Presumably, the light is either a train or the mouth of the tunnel. Either way, it signals some end. This time, however, it is just an unremarkable light source – a bulb hanging from an extension cord, perhaps – while the tunnel stretches back into darkness on either side.