Above: The Enlightenment. Rendering Below: Sectional diagram showing design incorporating processes of fireflies' life-cycle
Sequence 2 The Enlightenment: A Scene of the Nature
[Glowing, Enlightening] During the night, it provides city dwellers rare and precious opportunity to be in natural darkness, silent, illuminated by faintest allowable lighting, along with fireflies, and a series of glowing bowls. It is a metaphor of life, dimming but guiding lights in darkness we all need as we seek through. It is also an opportunity, with the stressful and noisy background of city filtered, to reflect about important questions of life. To create the scene of nature, we designed the environment to support fireflies, among other animals and insects. Among what we’ve created is the “bowl”, a container made of fluorescent material and filled with water. It provides water needed for breeding of fireflies, and makes part of the scene by glowing dim itself, and without consuming energy.