DAWN & DUSK	OCTOBER 13 TO NOVEMBER10 Longview, Washington Longitude W123.0 Latitude N46.1 Facing North   Between 10/13 and 11/10 we lost 39 minutes of light at dawn and 43 minutes of light at dusk.
Dawn & Dusk Home

10/13/00 I pour a diluted mixture of red fountain pen ink and sepia drawing ink onto the rectangle and draw through it with a water soluble pencil. With the pencil I feel my way through the puddle of dark ink, and the amount of pressure I put on the pencil corresponds to how much dark and light I'm seeing. I empty the pool, so to speak , by blotting up the ink with a paper towel until I get the light right. I spend a very short time making the drawing because the paper quickly absorbs the ink. Dawn and dusk are moments in a string of events leading us into and out of darkness.
10/14/00
7:05 AM PDT 46 degrees slight breeze, quiet, thick fog surrounding us, misty air, white gray light, a few birds singing. It is cold. I am lonely and content		6:50 PM PDT 52 degrees slight breeze, clear sky, crisp air
10/18/00 The air, moisture, and light are like March. The light is softly modulated and even-handed. I am agitated that this project is ending. Where do I go from here? I can't stop thinking about edges, magnetic force, gesture, friction, rotation.
10-20-00
7:12 AM PDT 46 degrees wind 1 MPH cold, heavy rain, gray moving sky, thick light		6:33 PM PDT 48 degrees still partly cloudy, silent and cold, clouds building and turning deep gray, light closing in from the sides of me
10/21/00 Dawn is wet, rainy, slow, and impeded by moisture. Dusk arrives as a matter of fact and is quick to leave. Venus was in the sky at dusk, and she slips behind the hills as the earth turns away.
10/23/00 Waking to a sky full of stars I see my first nebula through the binoculars, and I watch the stars fade in the dawn light. Each morning the sun reveals the forms on earth and overrides the light from the universe. This day was warm, bright, and clear, and one to cherish before the winter gray.
10/24 When dark spreads out and light descends, golden orange tufts open in the formless border in the distance. Pink clouds slowly lean north across blue sky washed with purple-gray haze. The pink draws to the orange in an uneven reflection until the wind disturbs and dilutes the sky. The glowing trees resume their stately punctuation in the green, and my day begins.
10-25-00
7:20 AM PDT 44 degrees still cloudy,light mist, sketchy fog, quiet, pending light		6:23 PM PDT 54 degrees light wind, cloudy, moist air, cold light falling deep, silent
10/29/00 Daylight savings time is over, and my body and psyche welcome the change. For more than a week I have felt out of sync with the artificial manipulation of time. I've never felt physically out of tune with the light until now. Half of the leaves are still on their branches while the other half of their leaves has fallen to the ground. I walk through spaces with dry, paper thin yellow particles above me and below me. We are in the middle of autumn.
11/1/00
6:29 AM 40 degrees still damp air and light, dense fog in the west, silent		5:14 PM 48 degrees slight breeze misty, dripping, damp, cold air, gray sky, fog coming in, light graying
11/03/00
6:31 AM 46 degrees still light fog, wet air and light. Light and moist air feel like March		5:10 PM 50 degrees still clear sky, doe eating apples in the valley, half moon up over shelter, silent, cold air, even hard light

DAWN & DUSK HOME  

 

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