Artist Statement:
This project explores the need we have to keep lights on at night and the extent that we as a people will go to keep those lights burning. Weather it is a spiritual need to surround ourselves with light or a fear of darkness, there definitely is an internal desire for lights being left on.
Pushing the edge of darkness farther away increases as our cities advance and grow. New buildings with smart lighting control systems are more adorned with lights than the historic buildings. Increasing demands on our time, to produce more within a day has demanded that the lights burn later than before. But when the office is closed, in the middle of the night, why are so many lights left on? Long coal trains snake through cities late at night, oil refineries run 24 hours a day and the coal fired power plants sit next to water’s edge churning out electricity for us to keep the lights on.
