And there, you've witnessed it.


I live in small rooms with blinking lights. This is the way I spend my time. I shuttle between small rooms inside small rooms with light everywhere, going on and off. Electric light usually resides on a different wavelength than natural light. For instance, the laptop I am typing on, and the computer screen I sit in front of, day in day out, produce a spectrum of light with only the colors red, blue and green. This is different than the fluorescent tubes in my landlord's office downstairs which emit an ultraviolet light which is turned into a continuous spectrum. It is a cold, green light famously making skin look pallorous. Natural sunlight, and all the lights refracted in the natural, out of doors environment, is composed to greater or lesser degree of every color. It is blue and cold at midday in the summer, golden and warm at sunset in the summer. In the winter it is the same, but different.
I shuttle back and forth between rectangular rooms inside rectangular rooms lit, often enough, by a combination of artificial light and natural light. And these lights are different wavelengths. This has been going on for a long time. I made a choice to pursue a career in blinking lights and rectangular rooms and moving back and forth between rooms holding blinking lights. I made this choice seven years ago. I thought, at the time, this career path would allow me to shuttle between rectangular rooms filled with blinking lights freely, and in any city I pleased. This is, for the most part, in theory, true. Circumstantially, it is less true but that's neither here nor there; circumstance is practice and practice need not coincide with theory.
I have grown my hair long and my beard shaggy, perhaps in an effort to seem larger than the little rooms I inhabit. This didn't occur to me before just this moment. Now that I have thought it, it seems possible to the point of probable.

3 comments:

Kris said...

wow -- fantastic drawing.

kelvin freely said...

can't wait until you cut your hair. we will all know that you are truly free . . . or else going into politics. either way, very exciting.

Anonymous said...

so funny,

I spent 2 years sitting in a small dark room on the 8th floor of Rockefeller Research Laboratories on 67th and 1st ave. That room was also filled with many lights. Seriously focused lights, argon lasers and Helium lasers and UV lasers - that produced just one wavelength each. The argon produced 488 nanometers, we perceive that as blue. The Helium produced 543nm, that was green. The UV was 363 - we couldn't see that one - almost - but the wavelength was just too narrow for our rods and cones. Anyway, after 2 years of this small room and these lights - I too grew my hair long. All my friends mocked me, but that was because I didn't always wash my hair and it got greasy. I was also in a rollerblading phase of my life - so i got a bit of mockery from that also. Either way - point being, growing your hair long was the appropriate response. But I would like to seriously advise against entering into a rollerblading phase of your life, nobody will support you - seriously.