ABSTRACT
As an exhibition title, Light Touch was intended to remind us of our relationship with light and the myriad ways in which it touches us. It was also a play on words, a ‘light touch’ exhibition that considered the environmental without being activist in tone. The exhibition for which it forms the principle (online) catalogue essay was installed on the gallery wall in the light and spacious link between international and national departures at Baltimore Washington International Airport where the footfall is extensive, and people have waiting time to be spent enjoying art. The essay briefly suggests myriad aspects of our relation to and dependence on natural light through remarking on ways in which it is deployed, for example, within architecture or agriculture, and referenced metaphorically in language or in western art. The purpose was to remind us of the ephemerality of natural light, and the centrality of daylight biologically, functionally, and emotionally that was symbolized through photographic works by the five artists included.
