Dec. 7 - Brownness at the edges of day - Autumnal

I think I may be behind on blog posts, but I've been saving up pictures to blog about all quarter, so prepare for an influx of posts from me. I took this picture from the Mesa parking structure because the clear lines of color melding and difference of color on the horizon vs the sky reminded me of the Cyc (cyke? Sike? Psych? Psion?). I'm starting to put together how lighting in theatre really works suggestively. We may never see an exact representation of the light of any outside event or location replicated in the theatre. But we can use our color pallet and intensities to suggest heavily toward times, places, and the way that nature makes us feel. I've had some hesitancy about using the cyc recently because it just reminds me so much that I'm in a theater and not in the actual place I am trying to suggest through my lighting, but I am also starting to realize that the suspension of disbelief takes us far, and that realism is achievable without things being perfectly replicated. Slowly putting the pieces together. Go me.