CREPUSCULAR DIARIES part 2: a Field Guide to Becoming Crepuscular
Alongside the creation of lullabies from the lingering light, I took analogue photos during dusk. Together with drawings and texts, I combined these into a little handmade “field guide”. The intention of the field guide is twofold:
1. Introducing readers to the ritual of living with, through, for twilight. Across many days and many locations, the blue light is pulling me out of the trance that the day has put me in. It’s yelling at me to be aware of the present moment. The field guide invites the reader to take on this ritual with me, with instructions, a playlist to set the mood, spaces for notes, and a (modest) manifesto.
2. Opening up cracks, for myself, for the reader, in the practice of “collecting” this twilight into my own medium. The analogue photos show the blue light of dusk being polluted with the reflections of the artificial light of the interior. The human interference with the disappearing light. The single coloured pages seem to be translating the shades of twilight, but they cannot quite grasp that twilight has ever changing colours and produce skies with many shades. The drawings show datafications of twilight, the human science plastered onto this natural concept. It aims for predictability, reproducibility, while the actual twilight has never failed to surprise me. The quotes (picked from my master thesis about my methodologies and practice of gathering) open up questions about the role of this collecting itself. Of not just observing, but trying to grasp and capture it into something that can be revisited. What do we gain, what do we lose in this process?
But, while these are the underlying ideas, it is mostly a fun little booklet that one can take in their pocket.
24 pages | 16 copies
