Leibovitz drew close enough to Virginia Woolf's writing desk to see not only big circles of black ink (Leonard Woolf described her as "not merely untidy but squalid") but also traces of light blue paint and the faint figures of a duck, a grid, and a sailboat carved into the wood.
I turn off the lights and follow the traces of light trying to see where shelling is coming from, and during the day I watch the smoke from the window and follow its location".
My collaborator Ben Tricklebank and I placed a laser on a train and used it to project traces of light in the form of images, maps and even passages of poetry.
The lasers used an advanced vector engine to make floating shapes, images, and words, promoting what the artist describes as "archaic sign language of an alien culture, communicating via emerging and disappearing traces of extremely bright light".
After a while, one of the men, Nilsson's chef de cuisine, a young Italian named Jakob Zeller, picked up a small paring knife and with meditative care traced a light cut around the circumference of the stalk, just below the crown.
Traces of light, abundant elements that bond readily with iron were pulled coreward, too, and scientists are trying to figure out which mix of oxygen, sulfur or other impurities might best match the seismic data and computer models.
Then, up on the second floor, she saw traces of light in her flat.
"The same principle applies in 'Polyday': as Annie moves, she leaves traces of light of where she was, or where she will be, or both.
One still floated after 3,000 years and one has traces of fires lit on the wide flat deck on which the catch was evidently cooked.
Grant the Wachowskis this: they can make a two-hour movie that remains visually interesting, even eccentric, without a trace of natural light.
The mind moves out of the darkness it is in to find a trace of its light, which stands to it as the sun stands to the eyes in bodily vision.
