Week 7: A Real Life Down Pool of Green Light (this is for you Gilly)

All week I’ve been wondering what my blog topic should be about. I love taking pictures of clouds, so I thought of maybe doing another picture study of the way colors and light interact with clouds.

Then one night, much to the chagrin of my back, I was practice for a little tap performance in the Norte parking lot with my friend. I happened to look over and saw this down pool of green light and I was like WHAT.

It literally took me 5 times to get this picture. By the time I would get my phone ready or my tap shoes off (I got new tap shoes and won’t walk on the asphalt with them) it would disappear. But finally after we were done rehearsing I was able to capture this.

For Gilly’s one act last spring, The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, the final moment on stage was a pool of down green light. It’s actually pretty similar to this color, if not the same exact color. Then for the poetry project Gilly and I were partners. I used a down green pool, too. Both times just an isolated down pool in the center. Gilly joked that it was my signature light statement. I also used a down green pool with Kelli in our Halloween project.

Then the other day during our gel sorting party I made a comment about some disgusting yellow gel (it was probably one of the more saturate straw colors). Gilly responding by brining up my liking of the gross greens.

So when I saw this light come on I was like, “IT EXISTS IN THE REAL WORLD”. Granted, I probably couldn’t use this color as a street light in a play without confusing the audience, but it was still nice to see that somewhere other than the theatre my green down pools exist.