Noise. Love it.

I’ve always had a fascination with light.  It is the reason we see color.  Through the camera oscura, light bends, distorting our reality, flipping what we see on toe.

 Millennial Time Machine (Camera Oscura) @ U of B.C.

So there I was, new book in hand, glistening in shrink wrap.  Carefully slitting the sides of the flimsy plastique, I unveil this vibrant collection of luminosity.

Usually I begin at the end.  But I thumbed through pages until I reached the very last page before the credits and found this:

The reason why you should always begin at the end.

Breath-taking… Then, I recognized it.  Jeff Wall.

Then I read the caption.

“The lighting concept was referenced from a Jeff Wall portrait.”

Haha, of course it was!

That portrait is titled After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue. Ralph Ellison, fighting for black rights…black the absence of color, hardly the absence of soul or intelligence.  A reference to a reference to a… always a fun game.

Invisibility - the absence of image even with the presence of light.  Absolutely brilliant.

Jeff Wall once said,

the spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that

Which makes me think…how spontaneous can inspiration be, if the original thing is so powerful, so radiant, that its light penetrates even the darkest of crevices?

Spectrums of Inspiration.