Week 8: Depth Perception

This weekend while I was studiously working on my color plot for the final (which is how I spend all of my free time, naturally), the light coming through the blinds struck me. Well, not literally struck, as you can see, but I think there's a dimensionality to the light in this picture that's more than it might originally appear.

Although the source is obviously outside the picture, an open set of blinds, we can see on the other set the light that is not getting through (being reflecting up, a little, it appears. There is depth to the shadow in this picture, certainly, but the brightness of the sun as it makes itself know feels like a different kind of depth - light rather than dark. I'm not sure why I associate depth with darkness, but thinking a lot about the dynamics of light this quarter is making me consider those associations in a whole new light. No pun intended. Okay, well, now that it's out there, maybe I'll take credit anyway and say it was a little bit intended.

It's interesting to consider also how much light is getting through (if the blinds were gels, how would the transmission vary). Obviously there's a contrast there, but it all seems to tie in with the idea of different kinds of depth to me. It's just a question of where the depth is, and whether we notice it if it doesn't appear as the idea of depth we're used to.