Fleeting Sun Pillar at Sunset
Day 18; February 9, 2009; Vesleskaervet, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
Average Daily Temperature: 9.86˚ F
Average Daily Wind Speed: 18.12 mph
Feels Like: -17.32˚ F
Today was quiet, and rather wonderfully subdued. I spent a good deal of the afternoon gazing out the window of my studio, meditating on the changing luminosity across the horizon to the south. The mountains appeared and disappeared behind think low clouds, and it was snowing heavily in the distance, leaving the farthest mountains obscured completely in gray opacity.
As the sun aligned itself on the horizon, there was another intense sun pillar. Rising like a flame above the rocks on the edge of our mountaintop, the beam glimmered outward a fiery pink from its golden core. Then, as if merely a chimera, it was gone, its floating crystalline form having vanished into the wind.
At 9:18pm, the exact moment of moonrise, I began a 24-hour light recording piece with the video camera. Tonight is the full moon, and its light shines in unison with that of the dimming sun. I will continue documenting the natural light for 15-minute durations every hour for 24 hours. The final piece will be my first multi-paneled screen video installation. For now, that is all I will say of it.
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