Ben Hillyer, 2014
"Light is the giver of all presences," Louis Kahn, architect.
This phrase has stuck with me since I heard it in architecture school and I am reminded of it in the early morning and late afternoon when light dances on the surfaces of materials, adds lines, changes textures and enlivens a scene that is seemingly devoid of color, like the photo above of the shadow of a tree falling on the side of a house in Natchez.
Another Kahn saying. "All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we are made of light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to light."