Sunlight, Liminality and Neo-romanticism
S U N L I G H T. Searching the skies is an addictive past time at the moment, day and night, always changing, always something to notice. The sun, when it appears, is worth grasping hold of, the colours, the feel of it on my skin and the lift in mood. I have felt this feed into my work. I recently listened to an episode of the Infinite Monkey Cage all about the Sun. Lucy Green, Professor of Physics at UCL, imparted this lovely piece about sunlight. "Even though light only takes 8 minutes to get from the surface of the sun, to make that journey from the core to the surface takes 200,000 years, so sunlight is as old as modern humans are" It made me think about deep time and our absurdly small but also significant place in all things. These photos are from this week capturing the few times the sun has fought its way through the January fog. One sees the half moon top right. And an unexpectedly clear and beautiful night seeing Jupiter and Mars. Hanging out of my window at ...
