Winter is upon us, the snow falls outside, so it is time to suspend toil, light the fire, feast, dance, sing, give each other candles as presents and generally make merry.
The most highly developed of these are The Ascension, with Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, which is so delicately carved that its full beauty can be seen only in a strongly raking light; and the Feast of Herod (1433 35), with its perspective background.
As long as lighting continues to account for 80% of any indoor grower's electricity use, lighting companies can feast on the marketplace.
At Westminster, England, during the 14th century, a candela rotunda ("round candle") was the centre of a "festival of lights" during the feast of the purification of the Virgin Mary (February 2), also called Candlemas Day.
It's a variable feast, light-handed about its cultural implications — several song titles, including "Ouidah" and "Goree," refer to the Atlantic slave trade, a close historical reality in Benin — but invested in emotional connection.
So, taking this one step further, imagine a small light-weight moveable feast of musicians in the inner cities of America making this possible for thousands of kids who have no access to something as fun as learning about music.
The Clover Club Banquet Room by Electric Light, Arranged for Annual Feast in America's Finest Hotel, the Bellevue-Stratford, Phila, U.S.A., gelatin silver stereograph, 1906.
Times Square is a feast of light these days, popping with virtue and commerce.
It includes a Loftus lens, named for David Loftus, the food still-life photographer (Ruth Rogers, Martha Stewart, Jamie Oliver); a Tasty Pop lens ("Light up your evening feast with delicious rays of silver light"); and DC film.
A little judicious seasoning was added to this feast of light and shadow with a sequence to the side of the screen in which Ms. Packer is touched and embraced by hands that appear suddenly from behind a black curtain.
