Why I'm Interested in Light

I am interested in light because I am interested in existence. It is lets us see places in the universe further away, and longer ago than we can conceive in our immediate experience. It also illuminates our most mundane objects when it shines through a window, or inspires awe when it passes over the landscape. It travels across such vast distances and yet is a tool capable of manipulation to better express our own human condition. Those who can see light like many more can hear a beautiful piece of music, whether it is small folk band, a jazz quartet, or a symphony, have lives which are truly enriched. It is everywhere we look and because of this we forget that it even exists. When people look at my art I want them to remember that it exists. I want them to know that sunlight which travels approximately 92,955,820.5 miles can have the character and simplicity of a simple highlight on the tip of one's nose. The universe is beautiful orchestration of light, and it is not this way because it was created for us, seeing as it precedes our existence, but because we came into existence in the same universe and exist in relation and harmony to it. Light is apart of us and apart of everything outside of us. When we look at it we see relationships, and all these relationships express the orders of being, and bridge the gap between the vast impersonal heavens, and the simple pleasures and pains of day to day life.