England 2025- The light of St. Ives
They say the light in St Ives is different. I didn’t believe it, after all they have the same sun as the rest of the world, but you have to be there to see it. The light really is different. The only word I can think of to adequately describe it is: soft. Like someone has put Vaseline on the lens to soften an aging silent film star. It’s soft and delicate. Diffused and golden. At first I didn’t notice it, even though I was looking. It was only when at the harbor facing out to the turquoise sea that I finally saw it. The famed St Ives light, coveted by artists for over a century. I asked my husband to tell me his impressions of the light in St Ives and his immediate answer was “magical”. He didn’t skip a beat and followed that up with “I felt like I was dreaming”. We sat at a cafe facing the harbor and I decided it was time to look up why the light really was different. There had to be a reason for this, otherwise we are having a group hallucination. The first explanat...
