Five Studies on Light

Light is in everything we see, yet its nature is elusive. As a wave of light interacts with the world, it scatters, diffuses, becomes absorbed, and transforms. And what appears as white light is, in fact, composed of seven distinct colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

It is light, in its many permutations, that gives form to the cycle of Earth’s seasons. As our planet tilts and orbits around the Sun, the shifting angles of light create rhythms that shape temperature and weather, and beyond that, entire ecosystems, human cultures, and our deepest sense of time and place.

Variation—and its absence—is central to our experience of these rhythms. The changing light of the seasons is more than a visual phenomenon; it is a cosmic metronome. Without these fluctuations, time would feel adrift, and the intricate ecological, emotional, spiritual systems built on light would begin to unravel.

As light changes throughout the seasons, we encounter how the nature of light determines what we see—for it is only through the instruction of light that we can perceive the world. We experience how light bounces, bends, diffuses, and disperses; how it creates shadow and saturates color; how the quality of light at dawn differs from that at dusk; how the absence or presence of light alters the human experience at its most fundamental level.

These studies on light explore not only the elements of light at play throughout the seasons, but also the very nature of light itself. They are invitations to meet each of light’s faces; to move with it as it evolves.