Saturday, December 02, 2023

Following the pool of light home

Concretely mediocre
London, ON
November 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram


We find meaningful moments in the most unexpected places.

Like around the back of a nondescript suburban office building on a dark and damp almost-winter evening.

Where flat white light spills out from the locked security door and into the empty parking lot.

Where unraked leaves blow across the asphalt and pile up in the gutters, singing their seasonal song to no one in particular.

Where indifferent architecture nonetheless paints a picture through the dirty glass that has its own bleak symmetry. Or maybe it’s asymmetry: I left my ruler at home.

Math quibbles aside, there’s no rational reason for a photo like this. Or for any photo. Yet we take them, anyway.

We take them because they help us remember what it felt like to be there.

We take them because the moments that play out in the shadows of nondescript suburban office buildings deserve to be frozen and shared just as much as any other moment.

We take them because when pools of light spill out into the night, we find solace in the simple act of looking back in through the window and letting the light banish the darkness.

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