Sunlight Observation

The light moves further into the house every day. Strange oblique shapes, sharp needles, diamonds, blunted squares of light suddenly appear on walls; places we haven't seen light since October. In any house the pattern and habits of light over a year can be charted, the simple journeys of light through a building - any building - can be measured and anticipated. Or even filmed. These chart the journey of the planet through space, its relationship with the sun. Imagine a house marked by these observations, walls covered with dates and times, a house decorated with dates of sunlight, overwritten year upon year! (One year I might rent an empty building and do just that, a building as an observatory of sunlight.) I am still unfamilar enough with this house to be surprised by the appearance of small light-patches on wall or carpet; and equally surprised when, suddenly, like now, they fade into the general greyness.