Oh Beautiful Night

When I still lived in my previous town of Turlock, Ca, there was a house that always caught my eye at night. I wish I had taken a picture of it, but alas, I haven’t been home for quite a while. However, it is strongly imprinted in my brain. The house has a modern architectural look. It is a white house with sharp angles; the type of design fit for a Stanley Kubrick film. The lighting on this house is superb. What the homeowner decided to do was put a bunch of little lights around the base of the house. These lights shoot upward and produce a cool color that wash up on the white of the house. This creates an almost solitary point of view because it feels like it replicates the moonlight. Rather than an amber glow of warmth, it is a cool light of solitude. The shadows produced by the trees give it an even more supernatural/romantic feel. The fact that I have never seen who lives in this house, and that I often stroll by it on my nightly walks when everyone is asleep, make me feel as if a very suavely dressed man smoking a pipe is sitting in the house with the set design of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nonetheless, I find the lighting highly supportive of both the house’s sophistication and eroticism.