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12.23.22-6.21.23, 180 day exposure, 4x5in paper negative solargraph.
It felt SO GOOD to see my one IRL Pagan friend today. He asked about my plans for Equinox, and we chatted about how amazing and comfy the dark half of the year is, and we said goodbye with "Happy Equinox."
It felt like being a REAL PERSON in a life where so much of me is locked in a metaphorical closet.
I decided today that whether it's today, or tomorrow, or five years from now, or ten, or even twenty - someday, I'm going to live my entire life like this.
Today is my first step in walking the Sun Path. And I'm never turning back.
Roman Calendar (Fasti Vallenses) - ISAW
"Even after the days of the month had lost any fixed correspondence with the phases of the moon, the Romans continued to count them in relation to one of three fixed points in the lunar cycle. The Kalends (from calare, "proclaim") was the first day of the month ... at the first appearance of the crescent new moon... The Nones (from nonus, "ninth") coincided with the first quarter of the moon and was the ninth day (counting inclusively) before the Ides (from iduare "to divide"), which occurred at the full moon and came in the middle of the month." - The Julian Calendar
architects and solstice
You know, the solstices is actually kind of important to architects. Never really thought about that, but we spent a lot of time studying it last term.
So much is designed around the angle of light - eaves of buildings, for instance, are often designed at just the right angle/width so that the low angle of winter light fully hits the window to heat the inside, but during the summer months, it shades the whole window to keep it cool. Energy control using the sun’s natural path across the sky.
We use sun-path diagrams to track what angle the sun is at at a given latitude over the course of the year, it’s REALLY COOL.
Exposure time: 2 months (1.10.2017 - 26.11.2017)
Red sun setting.
Nida. Lithuania
1.1.23-4.3.23, 92 day exposure, 2.5x7in paper negative solargraph.