Week 6: Geometric Cuts

Many people complain about having to take an 8 A.M. class and having to wake up at "un-Godly" hours to make it to class on time. Prior to this quarter I would have said the exact same but once I started noticing how beautiful the soft, morning light is, I fell in love with it. My house has two upstairs rooms that face towards the East so in the mornings the sun hits directly on the half-open shutters and projects beautiful geometric cuts on the wall near our staircase. One particular morning of this week, I noticed the positioning of each of the blinds and of the doors opening towards the room and saw how the shuttering of the light effectively created a series of geometrically cut lights on the wall. Despite it being a hectic morning, I stopped for a second to observe how exactly the light had been produced. Because it was early morning, the quality of the light was more diffused through the process of hitting the early morning fog and it gave the light a very soft glow. Towards the center of the light, so many of the different cuts were hitting the same spot together that it created a vibrant, bright intensity. While I felt that I had nothing to do with creating such a light, I marveled at the pleasant accident and found it made me fall further in love with waking up early to have a chance in catching more of these "lighting accidents".