Light Observation #4
1) 2/21/13, 3:49pm, walking through Dempster on my way from Breslin to Lowe.
2) At the intersection of three hallways, there is a frosted glass skylight. The light in the hallways around it is artificial. There is a shelf in the wall of the skylight, and there are small lights hidden in it that point up at the glass.
3) The hall seemed to be glowing, and at first I didn’t know why. The contrast of the natural and the unnatural light was immediately obvious, and had an off-putting feeling. The artificial light was more orange, but harsher, while the natural light was light and grey and calm. The frosted glass made it so that instead of seeing beams of light coming in through the sky light, you saw the hall cast in an ethereal glow. The strangest part of everything was the small lights inside the wall of the skylight. They seemed unnecessary, but were interesting, as the layers of unnatural, natural, and then unnatural light seemed totally out of place and created an almost spaceship-like effect. The light makes me uncomfortable every time I walk through Dempster, but fascinated at the same time.