refraction
“How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapour as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Suddenly a river snatches a blue light. The earth absorbs colour like a sponge slowly drinking water. It puts on weight; rounds itself; hangs pendent; settles and swings beneath our feet.”
“Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.”
photography · these dreamy images by photographer rinko kawauchi conjure images of hidden worlds and the mysticism of light’s effects.
words i · virginia woolf contemplates the life of light, its will and its ways, in her novel waves.
film · although a bit dense, david lowery’s a ghost story contains haunting imagery of times past and to come, surrounded by loss and change.
music · from our film, sometimes i get overwhelmed by dark rooms.
words ii · from leonard cohen’s anthem on how lifes imperfections give us meaning.
paintings · albert stadler’s paintings play with the dissolution of light, contrast, and opacity
Payton O'Neal