Lights, camera, action!

Life begins in darkness and it ends the same way. In between is light. A few seconds of power-cut make you feel terrible. Why? What's the fear about? Because it's just okay for lights to be on as and when we want. It's natural. It's in our system. We behave as if lit up spaces are natural.

Realise the truth. 

When the sun sets, it's dark. Darkness is truth. We try to set the truth aside by powering up our living spaces, our cities. Evolutionary theories remind us being animals at the core. So absence of light arouses suspicion. We carve figures out of thin air. A ghost! An angel! If not, at least something that can harm.

Move off the grid for a day or two. Get taken away to a patch where light is a bare minimum. Discover that nature offered us a balance between light and darkness. We tilted the balance our way. We felt more light means more work and more work means more well-being. A relative truth.

By accident or by choice, see the city from a distance. At such a moment you are an artist, the city-scape your canvas. Realise the dark truth.

Never mind.

Lights, camera, action!