Passeio Noturno
R. Motti
Streetlamp.
It takes a moment. Half a moment. The eye detects the shape and color, sends the data to the brain where it’s assembled and reassembled until a pattern begins to develop and crystallize in multidimensional space. The abstract shape assumes a recognizable form. This is up, that is down, this must be the Y axis, that’s the X axis, and Ahhh…streetlamp.
The pleasure is doubled. We appreciate the intrinsic beauty of the image itself, then we experience the sudden and pleasurable jolt of recognition–the intellectual equivalent of endorphins. “What is life,” asked poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, “but the angle of vision? What is life but what a man is thinking all day?” Some days…today…life is observing a streetlamp.
Streetlamp.
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