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| Costa Mesa, CA |
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| Costa Mesa, CA |
I took this picture today as the morning light flooded through my window. I bought this filter for my window to mask my room from the parking lot below it, but I chose this one specifically because I love the way light refracts through it, creating a rainbow on my walls. It is whimsical and pretty and without anything special I get a prismatic light show. Sometimes I feel like I'm looking into the sun through water, and at other times like I'm getting light through a stained glass window. I have an image in my head of my grandmother's house in Pasadena, which had a standing lamp with little crystals hanging from it. It sat by the window, and when the afternoon light would hit its strands of cut glass, I would run my hands through it, sit underneath it and watch the tiny rainbows it cast on the walls, imagining myself in a world that shined and sparkled like these crystals did. Maybe I'm too old to imagine myself as a character in some fantastical world like I used to when I was a child, but the light in this photo reminds me of that time when I was little and fascinated by tiny forgotten corners, where beautiful things reside.
Beautiful post. I have a similar affect in my living room from sun hitting the back of a CD. I cleaned and straightened all of my CDs a while back and missed the light so took one out and put it where the sun could hit it - good thing I do not really use my CDs anymore :)
ReplyDeleteReally nice and poetic post - the story of your grandma may be where your fascination with light started, I have a similar story at my grandparents house when I was a kid.