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Some time ago, I stumbled upon "Nightcaps", an urban art installation across Berlin:

"Nightcaps: Sculpture Against Light Pollution is a public art project consisting of 15 sculptures on streetlamps, designed to shield the light from spreading upwards and redirect it downwards. Nightcaps draws on a variety of cultural references, from religious head coverings to childlike ponytails, bats, and bucket hats, focusing on both cultural diversity and biodiversity, encouraging action through offering playful, optimistic, and approachable alternatives to over-illumination.
Designed to stimulate public interest and provoke conversation, the project involved residents of the neighborhood through workshops, questionnaires, and further discussions with scientists and dark-sky advocates. Nightcaps are supported by the German social housing company degewo AG, which owns the street lamps installed in Brunnenviertel, Berlin."

Check out all the pics on https://alonarodeh.com/nightcaps/

#Nightcaps #Nightwalks #Berlin #Brunnenviertel

Overnights in Octobers here in Toronto mean it usually cold enough that I hesitate to go out and pull a "Banksy" and create a painted Labyrinth somewhere that I need not to be seen doing so during daylight hours.

I currently have a full dozen Labyrinth works that are in various stages of progress.

With each passing October night, there is a dwindling window of outdoor evening paintable [sic] hours before Winter arrives in earnest and I will have to await Spring to continue working on my dozen or so outstanding Labyrinths.

By typing this, I have procrastinated, delayed, a full eight minutes, into deciding whether to pull an all-nighter and complete at least something tonight/overnight/pre-dawn.

It is moments like this I say to myself in the third person,

"Labyrinths don't build themselves."

And also reminding myself of that Bosnian Muslim Proverb,

"Every Chance is your Last Chance, The Circle is not round."

Funny to me, as many of my Labyrinths are indeed round-ish in design.

It's 11° Celsius outside, in Toronto tonight.

.... strange how simply typing this out has made me at least 'feel' like I did something labyrinth-making related tonight.

"When we talk about time, we usually refer to the past as being behind us and the future being ahead of us.

"This space-time arrangement seems so totally natural to us, it’s hard to imagine what it would be like to think otherwise.

"Years ago, I read about the Aymara, a tribe of Indigenous people in South America who have a way of thinking about time that’s the complete reverse of our own.

"They refer to the future as “back” or “behind” time, and the past as “front” time.

"When they speak about the past, they gesture ahead of them, and when they speak about the future, they gesture behind them.

"The reason they point ahead when talking about the past is that the past is known—it has already happened, therefore, it’s in front of you, where you can see it.

"The future, on the other hand, is unknown—it hasn’t happened yet, so it’s behind you, where you can’t see it.

"I read about this almost fifteen years ago and it still blows my mind.

"The past is in front of us. The future is behind us."

-- Quote from page 150 of "Don't Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again", Book by Austin Kleon

| #Time #DontCallItArt #AustinKleon #Aymara #Future #Past