Final Post

For the final post, I decided to go with a much deeper theme.  We think of light as a subject that is part of this Earth, but we sometimes forget to acknowledge is that light can come from above. . . in this case the stars.  People know that during a dark night sky, the moon seems to light up our sky and sometimes even paths.  What we at times forget to acknowledge is that the stars also play a role in lighting our Earth.  The stars also produce light, thanks to their gasses because the lighting of the stars is much more dim and not as bright as the sun or moon, it produces a  much more dim, almost dark lighting to the Earth.  In the article a French artist named Thierry Cohen, played with the idea of using the natural dim lighting of stars, to light up the world's largest cities, such as San Francisco, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro.  He took away the bright, white, florescent lights, produced by homes, buildings, etc and replaced it with the natural dim lighting of the stars found in rural areas such as Montana, mountain ranges, etc.  As a result, he created these pictures with huge bustling cities, with minimal lighting provided by the soft light of the stars.  Light is truly all around us, it is just a matter of paying attention to it, and how it lights all of us up.


https://www.wired.com/2014/11/thierry-cohen-darkened-cities/#slide-10