Dear Peter,

The World is made of light. Thousands of paintings and photographs emphasise and celebrate it.
The two Josef Allen photographs of the work were made in 1930.
The top view is to the north, the bottom looks south, this much we can say.
Do people seek light and shade for different reasons? Is it different for different people?
If the world is made of light, what is the ground made of? What impression do we make on it? Should we leave one behind?
Paved with gold? Made of end grain timber, certainly. Are we archeaologists? How do we recognise the materials we encounter?
Is every one a sign, or only some?
When we say 'landscape', what ever do we mean? Can it be too beautiful? (Safe to say this looks northwards,
in the northern hemishpere). Can indoors move outdoors, and vice-versa?
Can warnings be decorative? Can decoration be a warning? Why is paint different from something made of itself?
Is wet different from dry? How do light and shade change what we think? Can a warning be precious?
Granite paintwork with marble. Provincial town, where people know their masonry.
What is a palimpsest? Is this one? Dry, rolled, scraped, painted.
Is decoration measurement? Is measurement decoration? Light measurred by shade.
It depends on your point of view, the time of day, the time of year.


Yours, Richard.