#323: The Light Pictures
Small moments create lasting images
Light touches the indoor walls, bringing something from the outside in.
In April, Katie wrote about the slant of light in her room, wondering about the untouchable qualities of light and using the words of Emily Dickinson to make sense of it.
In the last few months, I have also caught moments where a slant of light has decorated a surface. It has become a consistent theme in my phone photo album: light creating unusual patterns on walls. For me, though, the moments I have captured rely not just on the beauty of light itself, but also on the fortunate placing of objects to create ethereal images.
It’s the perfect yet incidental placing of objects that creates these fleeting moments.
Small moments, which I decided to capture in small haiku.
№1
Here a boxed rainbow
wavers. Line by line inside
the light will wander.
№2
Hello. It’s so nice
to meet you in the shifting
shaft of lightness here.
№3
Diamonds in the rough
grain. Walls painted whiter than
salt crystals on sand.
